Green agriculture refers to agricultural practices that are environmentally sustainable, aiming to preserve natural resources, minimize pollution and promote biodiversity, according to the Beijing-based China Agricultural University.
Scientists used gene editing to create soybean mutants with improved "nodulation ability", a key factor in nitrogen fixation from the air.
China will continue to expand the soybean planting area to above 150 million mu this year. The government will support the northeast region to develop the whole industrial chain of soybean processing and soybean-related agricultural products.
The central government has unveiled a closely watched guideline aimed at increasing the nation's annual food yield by more than 50 million metric tons by 2030, with corn and soybean productivity being the focus, according to the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner.
The World Food Programme is closely following China's food policymaking and global aid initiatives, according to the United Nations agency's China Representative Zhao Bing, who praised the country's food supply situation as a bright spot against rising world hunger over the past decade.