Climate change threatens drop in grain harvest
By Jin Zhu | China Daily | Updated: 2011-11-09 08:02
Luo Jinming, a 76-year-old farmer in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, in a field of desiccated paddy on Aug 27. Wu Dongjun / for China Daily |
BEIJING - China might face increasingly grim food shortages in the next few decades due to a possible drop in the country's grain harvest, triggered by a climate change, a leading agriculturalist warns.
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