Rice resistant to saline-alkaline land achieves record yield in Xinjiang

Chen Wenfu, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of the expert team, said the successful planting of the rice marks the successful application of Chinese selection and cultivation of rice varieties resistant to saline-alkaline land.

China has around 1.5 billion mu of saline-alkaline land, among which more than 500 million mu are suitable to develop into arable land.

The country has 11 rice varieties that have passed the national test that can be planted on such land, and they have been planted on an accumulative saline-alkaline land of more than 1 million mu in more than 10 provincial regions.