Agriculture in China Faces Threat from Climate Change
China is facing a threat from extreme weather which is caused by climate change, and could adversely affect the food supply. China hopes to increase the grain production by 50 million tons to 55 million tons by 2020, but the rising temperatures combined with the lack of water, and the decrease
Independent researcher Dale Wen said that the biggest worry among locals was climate change. Dale Wen told China Daily, wheat and corn are the main local crops, however, most farmers are not willing to plant wheat as scarce water resources and increasing salt in the soil, have cause great losses in wheat output.
Professor Lin Erda at the China Academy of Agriculture, said drought has become the greatest disaster facing China's agriculture. Professor Lin Erda is doing research in Heilongjiang province and the Tailanhe River basin in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
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