date:Jan 06, 2014
with Hainan University.
China has some 13.3 million hectares of saline-alkali soils with the potential to be cultivated, equivalent to one tenth of the country's total farmland, according to data from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Wang Cailin, chief scientist of the rice breeding program in Jiangsu, said more than one quarter of the world's land is saline-alkali soil and another 20 per cent of farmland is at risk of salination.
Traditional methods of desalination, such as soil replacement