At present, more than 100 local households are part of the cooperative, and many large-scale grain growers from neighboring villages have also come to consult Chen to learn advanced farming techniques. It is estimated that new fertigation technology will be applied in more than 6,666 hectares of...
“The microbes engineered habitats around the plant roots that would be high in organic matter and make it more efficient for them to be able to obtain water and nutrients that they could then–in this carbon economy–essentially sell it to the plant,” saysKris Nichols, a leading researcher ...
On the back streets of cities and villages in China, doorways are a unique sight for a visitor like me. The doorways that interested me most were in the small lanes, called“hutongs”. In other cities I saw the doorways were different from those in Beijing. In the country villages, farm...
and in Southern California, that’s the kind of business you have to be in. You cannot compete with Salinas or Mexico; water is the major expense, land is second.” He has just purchased 155 acres near Valley Center, not far from Escondido; later this year, he...
“They took a body. Put him in a uniform with a briefcase and dropped him in the water near Spain.” Young me filed that away until I then saw the first filmed adaptation of Ewen Montagu’s wartime memoirThe Man Who Never Was. I’ll get to that part later; this is me reading the...