Guardian: New report confirms scale of China's soil pollution problem with 20% of farmland contaminated Share Tweet this Email A new government report estimates that a fifth of China's farmland is polluted. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
A fifth of China's farmland is polluted, according to an offical report based on the results of an extensive survey.
Soil pollution has long been a concern in China due to the country's rapid industrialisation and the report carried on the website of the Ministry of Environmental...