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    Seeds of Food Security

    Apr 02, 2020 4 minutes
    By Ji Jing
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    Ren Zhiguo, a grain farmer who heads a rural cooperative in Zhenlai, a county in Jilin Province, northeast China, described how the novel coronavirus outbreak was giving him sleepless nights. It was time to plant rice but with transport hit by the pandemic, over 100 tons of seeds and fertilizer his cooperative needed hadn’t arrived.

    “Farming can’t wait,” Ren told China Youth Daily.

    He felt relieved when the local government announced that vehicles transporting agricultural materials will be given the green light in a guideline it issued on spring planting.

    The county’s agricultural material wholesale markets reopened on March 1. Dealers deliver the

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