{"id":57455,"date":"2018-10-22T07:06:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T07:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57455"},"modified":"2018-10-22T07:06:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T07:06:48","slug":"chinese-scientists-growing-rice-using-sea-water-might-be-able-to-feed-the-entire-arab-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/10\/22\/chinese-scientists-growing-rice-using-sea-water-might-be-able-to-feed-the-entire-arab-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists growing rice using sea water, might be able to &#8216;feed the entire Arab world&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Chinese scientists have achieved success in developing\u00a0a specific strain of rice that grows in the deserts of Dubai using salt water. Also, this particular strain\u00a0yields far more rice than the average freshwater-dependent strains.<\/p>\n<p>In January this year, the team of researchers was invited by representatives of the United Arab Emirates to plant some of the salt-tolerant rice in different patches of the desert where water is too precious to waste on crops that depend on such intense hydration.<\/p>\n<p>After a period of five months,\u00a0the modified rice yielded as much as 7.8 tons of food per hectare whereas the global average stands at 3.3 tons per hectare.<\/p>\n<p>The long-term goal of the researchers is to cover up to 10% of the UAE with the saltwater rice paddies \u2013 and if the technology proves to be consistently successful in Dubai\u2019s harsh agricultural climate, then the farms could \u201cfeed the entire Arab world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/scientists-growing-rice-with-seawater-could-feed-entire-arab-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/scientists-growing-rice-with-seawater-could-feed-entire-arab-world\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Chinese scientists have achieved success in developing\u00a0a specific strain of rice that grows in the deserts of Dubai using salt water. Also, this particular strain\u00a0yields far more rice than the average freshwater-dependent strains. In January this year, the team of researchers was invited by representatives of the United Arab Emirates to plant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}