FAO, Tsinghua plan agricultural project to help impoverished county

BEIJING - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and Tsinghua University released designs of their products and service systems for a joint agricultural innovation project on July 5.

The designs are for the Hani Rice Terraces in poverty-stricken county of Honghe in Southwest China's Yunnan province, as part of the project jointly launched by the FAO and Tsinghua's Academy of Arts &Design this spring.

Their plans include an adoption program for the rice fields in the region, setting up a local cultural ecology museum and finding ways to cultivate rice, according to a statement released by the FAO.