China grows rice on land contaminated with industrial waste
date:Jun 09, 2013
gion have created wastewater run-offs into sources which are used to directly irrigate crops. That has caused heavy pollution in an area known as the home of rice and fish.

Part of the problem is an improper pairing of industries.

We call it 'integrated food and mining complexes' - basically food production and mining happening at the same place together, and this isn't rational, Chen Nengchang, a researcher at the Guangdong Institute of Environmental and Soil Sciences, told Reuters. The probl
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