173 hectares of desert-grown wheat harvested in Xinjiang
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Over 173 hectares of wheat have been harvested for the first time on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, China’s largest desert. Join us in Yutian County, Xinjiang, to see how innovative farming techniques are helping drought-resistant wheat to thrive.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
