China’s long, dry winter was broken by scatted snowfall across several breadbasket provinces on Thursday—much to the joy of policymakers, as well as snowball-throwing children every where.
The drought this winter has raised concerns about the wheat crop in some quarters including the UN. China’s top policy body, the State Council, was summoned to discuss crop policies by Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday, and subsequently more than $1bn in crop subsidies and drought relief was announced.
But China is also deploying a proverbial “silver bullet” to fight the drought: large-scale cloud seeding that will augment natural snowfall.
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