12 Apr 2022

Cool (soy)beans

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For China, food security starts with Chinese seeds.

That was Xi Jinping’s message when he inspected Hainan province’s Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory on Sunday (Xinhua):

“Only by holding Chinese seeds tightly with our own hands can we stabilize the Chinese rice bowl and achieve food security.”

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