UrumqiA cotton-quality rule now tracks every bale to a named farmer.
Growers who miss its seed or acreage specifications lose the right to sell their land.
The July 1 regulation ties barcoded traceability records, kept five years, to planting, land plots and processing across China’s Uyghur region.
About 7 million people farm the region’s cotton, most of them Uyghur, Xinhua reported.
Sources: Global Voices