Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils
2 years, 4 months ago

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils

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Experts inspect tobacco planted on saline-alkaline land in the demonstration area in Dongying. ZHAO YIMENG/CHINA DAILY In the same month, the area's soybean yield reached 3.5 metric tons per hectare, a record high on the "white land"－as it was dubbed by local people because of the high salt content that left a distinctive "frost" on the top layer of the soil－that once produced no more than 2.2 tons per hectare. The No 1 Central Document for 2022－the first policy statement released by the central authorities every year as an indicator of policy tools for work in rural areas－underscored the rising production capacities of soybeans and oil crops and ordered that the demonstration planting of soybeans should be launched on saline-alkaline soils. "So, when promoting new peanut varieties on saline-alkaline soils it is very important to use salty land and raise the production capacity of peanut oil. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said one-third of China's 100 million hectares of saline-alkaline land has the potential to enable increased grain production and ensure national food security.

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Saline solutions transform barren land into fertile fields
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Saline solutions transform barren land into fertile fields

China Daily  

In late October, a bustling scene is unfolding as harvesters and grain transportation vehicles move back and forth across 173 hectares of rice fields in Kenli district of Dongying, Shandong province. We anticipate a good year," said Wang Xiaomeng, deputy general manager of Dongying Benlai Agricultural Technology Development Co. "Our rice base benefits from an extended growing season, resulting in …

Salt-alkaline lands sprout new hope in Dongying
8 months, 1 week ago

Salt-alkaline lands sprout new hope in Dongying

China Daily  

In the salt-alkaline potato planting fields of Tingluo town, Lijin county, a flurry of activity is underway. Recognizing this potential, Lijin county has led the way in reclaiming salty land through technological and methodological innovations, establishing a practical and scalable approach for comprehensive utilization and thus contributing to national food security. The initiative leverages new agricultural business entities to establish …

'Doctor' helps transform land as science harvests benefits
1 year, 5 months ago

'Doctor' helps transform land as science harvests benefits

China Daily  

CHANGCHUN — Although 39-year-old Ma Wei is not a physician, he has earned the nickname "Dr Ma" among locals due to his remarkable ability to transform barren land into fertile soil. As China focuses on promoting agricultural modernization, regions across the country have been making great efforts to utilize saline-alkali land with innovative solutions ranging from the breeding of saline-alkali …

'Doctor' helps transform land as science harvests benefits
1 year, 5 months ago

'Doctor' helps transform land as science harvests benefits

China Daily  

CHANGCHUN — Although 39-year-old Ma Wei is not a physician, he has earned the nickname "Dr Ma" among locals due to his remarkable ability to transform barren land into fertile soil. As China focuses on promoting agricultural modernization, regions across the country have been making great efforts to utilize saline-alkali land with innovative solutions ranging from the breeding of saline-alkali …

Innovative center in Shandong province to study saline-alkali land
1 year, 7 months ago

Innovative center in Shandong province to study saline-alkali land

China Daily  

China is building an innovation center to study and utilize saline-alkali land with a focus on conducting observation of the soil, vegetation, groundwater and climate across the country to provide data support for land management and utilization, according to Shandong Provincial Department of Science and Technology. "China is the third-largest country in the world in terms of the distribution of …

Innovative center in Shandong province to study saline-alkali land
1 year, 7 months ago

Innovative center in Shandong province to study saline-alkali land

China Daily  

China is building an innovation center to study and utilize saline-alkali land with a focus on conducting observation of the soil, vegetation, groundwater and climate across the country to provide data support for land management and utilization, according to Shandong Provincial Department of Science and Technology. "China is the third-largest country in the world in terms of the distribution of …

Barren terrain undergoes dramatic transformation
2 years, 1 month ago

Barren terrain undergoes dramatic transformation

China Daily  

A harvester gathers wheat grown on salt-affected land in Lijin county, Dongying, Shandong province, in June. After three years' work to manage the salt-affected soil and cultivate salt-tolerant seeds, the once-barren land has been transformed into a productive area for seawater rice, demonstrating efficient use of salt-affected soil. Carlos Watson, representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, …

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils
2 years, 4 months ago

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils

China Daily  

Researchers pack seeds at the quinoa germplasm resource bank in the demonstration zone in Dongying. Li Yiqiang, an official with the Tobacco Research Institute at CAAS, said their marine agriculture center has discovered tobacco plants with outstanding tolerance of saline. Since the center was established in 2015 to study special plants' adaptation to saline-alkaline soils and the comprehensive use and …

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils
2 years, 4 months ago

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils

China Daily  

People plant sea rice seedlings at the Chengyang Saline-Alkaline Land Rice Improvement Demonstration Base in Qingdao, Shandong. ZHANG JINGANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Though the crops planted in the area so far have mainly been used for experiments rather than as materials for cigarettes, regular cultivation of tobacco has contributed to poverty alleviation in remote areas, Li Yiqiang said. Tobacco cultivation on …

New varieties of plants designed to overcome adverse conditions
2 years, 4 months ago

New varieties of plants designed to overcome adverse conditions

China Daily  

A soybean-corn combined planting belt on saline-alkaline land is seen at the Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Area of the Yellow River Delta in Dongying, Shandong province. ZHAO YIMENG/CHINA DAILY Most of the world's saline-alkaline soils are located in arid and semiarid regions that have low rainfall and high evaporation levels, which facilitates the formation of salty land, according to Li …

Closely integrated sector set to flourish
2 years, 4 months ago

Closely integrated sector set to flourish

China Daily  

Experts inspect tobacco planted on saline-alkaline land in the Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Area of the Yellow River Delta in Dongying, Shandong province. ZHAO YIMENG/CHINA DAILY Last month, the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Association for Saline-Alkali Land was established at an agricultural demonstration area in East China's Shandong province. Wu Wenbin, director of the Institute of Agricultural Resources …

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils
2 years, 4 months ago

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils

China Daily  

Huang Fenghong of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences inspects combined soybean and corn planted on saline-alkaline land at the Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Area of the Yellow River Delta in Dongying, Shandong province. In mid-July, soybean and corn that had been planted together were growing well on farmland at a demonstration area in Dongying, Shandong province. Those results were …

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils
2 years, 4 months ago

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils

China Daily  

A soybean-corn combined planting belt is seen in the area. ZHAO YIMENG/CHINA DAILY Production potential Li Yuyi, chief scientist of saline-alkaline soil improvement at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that although the area of salty land is included in calculations of the country's total arable land, its production capacity is only about half that of more-productive farmland. He …

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils
2 years, 4 months ago

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils

China Daily  

A soybean-corn combined planting belt is seen in the area. ZHAO YIMENG/CHINA DAILY Production potential Li Yuyi, chief scientist of saline-alkaline soil improvement at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that although the area of salty land is included in calculations of the country's total arable land, its production capacity is only about half that of more-productive farmland. He …

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils
2 years, 4 months ago

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils

China Daily  

Experts inspect tobacco planted on saline-alkaline land in the demonstration area in Dongying. ZHAO YIMENG/CHINA DAILY In the same month, the area's soybean yield reached 3.5 metric tons per hectare, a record high on the "white land"－as it was dubbed by local people because of the high salt content that left a distinctive "frost" on the top layer of the …

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils
2 years, 4 months ago

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils

China Daily  

Researchers pack seeds at the quinoa germplasm resource bank in the demonstration zone in Dongying. Li Yiqiang, an official with the Tobacco Research Institute at CAAS, said their marine agriculture center has discovered tobacco plants with outstanding tolerance of saline. Since the center was established in 2015 to study special plants' adaptation to saline-alkaline soils and the comprehensive use and …

New varieties of plants designed to overcome adverse conditions
2 years, 4 months ago

New varieties of plants designed to overcome adverse conditions

China Daily  

A soybean-corn combined planting belt on saline-alkaline land is seen at the Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Area of the Yellow River Delta in Dongying, Shandong province. ZHAO YIMENG/CHINA DAILY Most of the world's saline-alkaline soils are located in arid and semiarid regions that have low rainfall and high evaporation levels, which facilitates the formation of salty land, according to Li …

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils
2 years, 4 months ago

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils

China Daily  

People plant sea rice seedlings at the Chengyang Saline-Alkaline Land Rice Improvement Demonstration Base in Qingdao, Shandong. ZHANG JINGANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Though the crops planted in the area so far have mainly been used for experiments rather than as materials for cigarettes, regular cultivation of tobacco has contributed to poverty alleviation in remote areas, Li Yiqiang said. Tobacco cultivation on …

Closely integrated sector set to flourish
2 years, 4 months ago

Closely integrated sector set to flourish

China Daily  

Experts inspect tobacco planted on saline-alkaline land in the Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Area of the Yellow River Delta in Dongying, Shandong province. ZHAO YIMENG/CHINA DAILY Last month, the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Association for Saline-Alkali Land was established at an agricultural demonstration area in East China's Shandong province. Wu Wenbin, director of the Institute of Agricultural Resources …

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils
2 years, 4 months ago

Demonstration area aims to boost crop yields on saline-alkaline soils

China Daily  

Huang Fenghong of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences inspects combined soybean and corn planted on saline-alkaline land at the Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Area of the Yellow River Delta in Dongying, Shandong province. In mid-July, soybean and corn that had been planted together were growing well on farmland at a demonstration area in Dongying, Shandong province. Those results were …

Dongying explores utilization of saline-alkali land
2 years, 5 months ago

Dongying explores utilization of saline-alkali land

China Daily  

East China's Shandong province is beefing up efforts to build the Agricultural High-tech Industrial Demonstration Area of the Yellow River Delta into a new comprehensive utilization model of saline-alkali land that can be replicated and popularized, so as to make contributions to the modernization of agricultural and rural areas in saline alkali areas. "The improvement and utilization of saline-alkali land …

'Barren' land yields harvest of hope
2 years, 10 months ago

'Barren' land yields harvest of hope

China Daily  

Growing crops in saline soil with a salt content of six parts per thousand may sound like science fiction, but it is already doable in Dongying. Now, the city has made progress in the comprehensive use of saline-alkali soil by cultivating salt-resistant crops at the Agricultural High-tech Industrial Demonstration Area of the Yellow River Delta, which greatly increased the productivity …

Binzhou builds fruit, vegetable factory on saline-alkali land
2 years, 11 months ago

Binzhou builds fruit, vegetable factory on saline-alkali land

China Daily  

The Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Demonstration Park in Zhanhua district, Binzhou, Shandong province is building a fruit and vegetable factory on the city's saline-alkali land. The park adopts the operation mode of "investor + operator + family farm" and it has launched preferential policies to attract local experienced farmers to manage and operate the park, said Chang Qinrong, manager …

Binzhou builds fruit, vegetable factory on saline-alkali land
2 years, 11 months ago

Binzhou builds fruit, vegetable factory on saline-alkali land

China Daily  

The Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Demonstration Park in Zhanhua district, Binzhou, Shandong province is building a fruit and vegetable factory on the city's saline-alkali land. The park adopts the operation mode of "investor + operator + family farm" and it has launched preferential policies to attract local experienced farmers to manage and operate the park, said Chang Qinrong, manager …

Dongying harvests salt-resistant soybeans
3 years, 1 month ago

Dongying harvests salt-resistant soybeans

China Daily  

Salt-resistant soybeans are entering their harvest season in late autumn in the Yellow River Delta Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone in Dongying, Shandong province. A worker controls a machine to harvest salt-resistant soybeans at the Yellow River Delta Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone in Dongying, East China's Shandong Province on Nov 3. Salt-resistant soybeans enter their harvest season in late …

Dongying harvests salt-resistant soybeans
3 years, 1 month ago

Dongying harvests salt-resistant soybeans

China Daily  

Salt-resistant soybeans are entering their harvest season in late autumn in the Yellow River Delta Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone in Dongying, Shandong province. A worker controls a machine to harvest salt-resistant soybeans at the Yellow River Delta Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone in Dongying, East China's Shandong Province on Nov 3. Salt-resistant soybeans enter their harvest season in late …

Shandong scientists cultivate high-yield salt-resistant soybeans
3 years, 2 months ago

Shandong scientists cultivate high-yield salt-resistant soybeans

China Daily  

A breeding research center in Dongying, Shandong province has cultivated high-yield salt-resistant soybean varieties that boast an output of 263.3 kg per mu. In an experimental program, salt-resistant soybean varieties of TZX-1736 and TZX-805 were planted in the saline soil with a salt content of five parts per thousand in the Yellow River Delta. The expert group led by academicians …

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