Wheat seedlings thrive on southern edge of Taklimakan Desert (original) (raw)

At a wheat planting base covering more than 8,200 mu (about 547 hectares) in Kunyu city, located on the southern edge of the Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, wheat seedling survival rates remain above 90 percent. Removing the need for manual irrigation, pointer-type sprinkler...read full story

"These machines, alongside our drones that patrol the fields, mean I don't need to spend as much time out here, and the crops are growing well,"