{"id":155197,"date":"2026-07-27T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155197"},"modified":"2026-07-27T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:00:06","slug":"food-security-can-drones-and-beidou-put-an-end-to-paper-farming-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155197","title":{"rendered":"Food security: can drones and BeiDou put an end to \u2018paper farming\u2019 in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s agriculture sector needs more advanced technology and innovation to boost yields and improve food security \u2013 not more farmland and crops, according to a rural policy expert.<br \/>\nThe remarks came after a state media investigation alleged that officials in central China had inflated the size of mandatory rice crops to hit their targets.<br \/>\nCCTV programme Focus Report aired its investigation on July 14, claiming officials in Jianghua Yao \u2013 a county in Yongzhou, Hunan province \u2013 had misreported the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3361924\/food-security-can-drones-and-beidou-put-end-paper-farming-china?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 PostChina\u2019s agriculture sector needs more advanced technology and innovation to boost yields and improve food security \u2013 not more farmland and crops, 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\/155197"}],"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=155197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}