The Chinese MinistryofAgriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.
The ministryofagriculture, for example, wants to increase self-sufficiency in food.
例如，农业大臣希望在食品行业增加自给自足的程度。
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As he patrolled the hillsides one day last June, Innocent Musabyimana, the project's manager in the MinistryofAgriculture, expressed a kind of desperate optimism.