"Although soybean is native to China, there are still issues to overcome regarding its cultivation there, one of which is over-use of fertilisers"

Scientists of the James Hutton Institute recently visited China on a fact-finding mission to see how the Institute might collaborate with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) to improve soybean cropping in China through better utilisation of the plant’s ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen and reducing the need for fertiliser inputs.

Dr Euan James, one of the Hutton representatives in the trip, said that even though China has made remarkable agricultural progress, some of it has come at the expense of environmental degradation.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute