BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China will expand trials of crop rotation and fallow systems as it upgrades its agricultural industry and looks to protect limited arable land, vice-agriculture minister Yu Xinrong said.
China launched trials of the programs last June and will expand them this year to 1.65 million acres for crop rotation and 330,000 acres of fallow land, the minister said.
The crop rotation trials will be applied in places where mainly corn, soybean and oil crops are grown, he said.
In mid-February, the government promised to spend about $328 billion to boost the quality of arable land and promote urbanization, including developing “high-standard cropland.”
