{"id":81569,"date":"2013-02-07T22:05:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satellite-drives-chinas-agricultural-modernization\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T22:05:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:05:31","slug":"satellite-drives-chinas-agricultural-modernization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satellite-drives-chinas-agricultural-modernization\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Drives China\u2019s Agricultural Modernization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: China, Satellite Positioning, Satellite Mapping,<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 02\/05\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/6324617690_2bcc675ae8_n.jpeg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Rural farmer in China.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Hong Meen Chee\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>China has started a project to modernize its agricultural system by using new satellite technology. The pilot took place at a small village of Yangwang in the Anhui province of eastern China and mapped farmer\u2019s land holdings in hopes that the project will help alleviate fears of food shortages caused by a growing population. <\/p>\n<p>The mapping is a crucial task in making farmers feel safer and increase the possibilities for merging fields into larger scale farms.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we don\u2019t do this now, and the older generation passes away, the next generation won\u2019t know which plot is whose,&#8221; Pan Shengyu, who oversaw one of Anhui\u2019s land titling pilots, said to Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The results from the pilot in Yangwang, using satellite positioning, have been scaled up in other projects around the province and the government is looking to expanding it to a nationwide program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: China, Satellite Positioning, Satellite Mapping, Publication Date: 02\/05\/2013 Rural farmer in China. Image credit: Hong Meen Chee China has started a project to modernize its agricultural system by using new satellite technology. The pilot took place at a small village of Yangwang in the Anhui province of eastern China and mapped farmer\u2019s land holdings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}