Saline soils, which have high concentrations of sodium chloride and other salts, limit plant growth, and research continues to focus on developing salt-tolerant varieties of agricultural crops.

盐碱地含有高浓度的氯化钠和其他盐类，限制了植物的生长，研究继续集中于开发耐盐的农作物品种。

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Over the next year and a half investigators will test the various strains of salt-tolerant rice they've bred.

在未来一年半的时间里，研究人员将测试他们培育的各种耐盐水稻品种。

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As an EU-funded effort, the search for salt-tolerant varieties of rice is taking place in all three countries.

作为欧盟资助的项目，此项针对盐分耐受稻米品种的研究正在这三个国家展开。

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The result, Dr Abe hopes, will be a viable salt-tolerant strain that is ready for market within four years.

ECONOMIST: Salt-tolerant rice

Dr Abe's plan is to use these mutations to create salt-tolerant rice.

ECONOMIST: Salt-tolerant rice

Salt-tolerant rice would, though, be of much wider use than just restoring the paddies of Miyagi prefecture and its neighbours, the worst-affected part of the country, to full productivity.

ECONOMIST: Salt-tolerant rice