{"id":131174,"date":"2025-06-16T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131174"},"modified":"2025-06-16T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:00:17","slug":"food-security-takes-root-how-chinas-xinjiang-is-at-forefront-of-national-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131174","title":{"rendered":"Food security takes root: how China\u2019s Xinjiang is at forefront of national push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese agricultural scientists have turned 40 hectares (99 acres) of salty soil in Xinjiang into fertile land capable of supporting multiple crops \u2013 part of a national strategy to bolster food security by transforming vast swathes of non-arable terrain into farms.<br \/>\nThe breakthrough followed seven years of effort in the Uygur autonomous region\u2019s Shihezi, led by a research team from a local university, the state-owned People\u2019s Daily reported. The previously degraded soil now sustains wheat,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3314339\/chinas-xinjiang-turns-salt-desert-fertile-farmland-food-security-push?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese agricultural scientists have turned 40 hectares (99 acres) of salty soil in Xinjiang into fertile land capable of supporting multiple crops \u2013 part&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}