{"id":149426,"date":"2026-04-10T05:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149426"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:09:48","slug":"2-years-on-china-proves-its-desert-wheat-farms-are-not-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149426","title":{"rendered":"2 years on: China proves its \u2018desert wheat farms\u2019 are not a hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGrowing wheat in sand may be regarded as impossible in most countries.<br \/>\nBut China\u2019s \u201cdesert wheat farms\u201d have survived repeated sandstorms and continue to grow following an initial trial in the country\u2019s largest desert, as part of an ongoing effort to combat desertification and unlock the land\u2019s potential for strengthening national food security.<br \/>\nTwo years ago, on the fringes of the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China launched an unprecedented project to plant wheat&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3349579\/two-years-china-proves-its-desert-wheat-farms-are-not-hoax?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGrowing wheat in sand may be regarded as impossible in most countries. But China\u2019s \u201cdesert wheat farms\u201d have survived repeated sandstorms and continue to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149426"}],"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=149426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}