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Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Satellites Put Small Farms on China’s Map

The bare light bulbs, unheated rooms and elderly residents of the whitewashed village of Yangwang in eastern China make it seem an unlikely place for an experiment in cutting-edge satellite technology.


But the tiny village in Anhui Province was home to a pilot project that for the first time mapped farmers’ land, putting Yangwang on the front line of China’s efforts to build a modern agricultural sector that can underpin the country’s food security — a policy priority for the Communist Party.


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Lucy Hornby and Hui Li, Reuters via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/DTpX5QMmhEs/

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