date:Jun 04, 2013
For Bai Qiangguo, 53, life on the wind-blown plains of central Ningxia Hui autonomous region was like being frozen in time: the use of excessive pesticides and fertilizers to farm the reluctant land took its toll on the little fertility there is in the soil. The land became sandier and sandier, increasingly prone to dust storms.
But science is bringing the cycle to an end and giving farmers a harvest for the future.
Now I work on the land during the day, and use the Internet to sell my wolfb