Instead of relying on traditional farming methods, Han adopted modern practices such as conservation tillage technology for black soil conservation, which involved returning straw and livestock manure to the field after fermentation. She also carried out mechanized farming leveraging large-scale agricultural...
“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...