China will import "dry-water" this year for trial use in the afforestation of the country's western region, an official with the State Forestry Administration (SFA) said here today.
He said that the product, called Driwater, will first be used in the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu and Shaanxi, and the autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, areas largely arid land and hills.
"If this proves successful, China will introduced this technique," he said, adding that the SFA has started technical training for personnel undertaking this work.
Driwater, patented by its inventor in the United States, is a new concept in plant irrigation. It comes in a gel form, and when buried in soil it dissolves into water at a controlled flow rate which will irrigate plants or seedlings over a fixed period of time.
China will import "dry-water" this year for trial use in the afforestation of the country's western region, an official with the State Forestry Administration (SFA) said in Beijing on April 5.
