Reading Time: 2 minutes About 3.33 million hectares (eight million acres) of China’s farmland is too polluted to grow crops, a government official said Dec. 30, highlighting the risk facing agriculture after three decades of rapid industrial growth. China has been under pressure to improve its urban environment following a spate of pollution scares. But cleaning up rural regions […] Read more
China says over three mln hectares of land too polluted to farm
Government trying to reverse damage done by years of urban and industrial encroachment
