Better practices boost Xinjiang farm productivity
Better field management and stable weather conditions helped secure a bumper summer grain harvest in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo provided to China Daily]
"The local government would dispatch technicians to the field to instruct us how to water and spray insecticide in high temperatures," said Feng Rugang, a farmer from Qitai county in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture.
Li Jianjiang, a researcher at the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said a number of favorable policies have helped farmers overcome the negative effects of the pandemic and drought this year.
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