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

The national saline-alkaline resistant rice technology innovation center was established by 11 institutions including the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center, Hainan University, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

The center aims to cultivate more high-yield crops suitable for saline-alkaline land and achieve the goal of reaching an additional yield of 30 billion kg of crops and feeding 80 million people by planting crops in 100 million mu of saline-alkaline land.