{"id":153951,"date":"2026-07-03T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153951"},"modified":"2026-07-03T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:00:06","slug":"totally-unexpected-chinas-trial-taklamakan-desert-wheat-yield-doubles-national-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153951","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Totally unexpected\u2019: China\u2019s trial Taklamakan Desert wheat yield doubles national average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA demonstration wheat plot in China\u2019s vast Taklamakan Desert has produced a harvest nearly double the national average yield recorded in 2025, according to a project announcement.<br \/>\nThe wheat, known as Jingmai 189, was developed by the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences to withstand drought, saline soil and nutrient-poor land.<br \/>\nThe trial on a managed, heavily saline plot produced a harvest of 768kg per mu (about 11.5 tonnes per hectare or 10,278lbs per acre) compared with the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3359171\/totally-unexpected-chinas-trial-taklamakan-desert-wheat-yield-doubles-national-average?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 PostA demonstration wheat plot in China\u2019s vast Taklamakan Desert has produced a harvest nearly double the national average yield recorded in 2025, according 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\/153951"}],"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=153951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}