FOOD SECURITY: CAN DRONES AND BEIDOU PUT AN END TO ‘PAPER FARMING’ IN CHINA?

China’s agriculture sector needs more advanced technology and innovation to boost yields and improve food security – not more farmland and crops, according to a rural policy expert. The remarks came after a state media investigation alleged that officials in central China had inflated the size of mandatory rice crops to hit their targets.

News - South China Morning Post reports that china’s agriculture sector needs more advanced technology and innovation to boost yields and improve food security – not more farmland and crops, according to a rural policy expert.

The report adds: The remarks came after a state media investigation alleged that officials in central China had inflated the size of mandatory rice crops to hit their targets.

CCTV programme Focus Report aired its investigation on July 14, claiming officials in Jianghua Yao – a county in Yongzhou, Hunan province – had misreported the...

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