While inflation is a word few farmers will welcome, there’s a new form of it – currently being trialled in a handful of shrimp farms in China – that might just prove more popular. We’re referring to inflatable air domes, similar to those designed to cover large sporting arenas, that have been adapted to act as an alternative to the polytunnels that characterise the country’s greenhouse shrimp farms. While more expensive to set up, the trials suggest a raft of benefits – to the shrimp, to the farmers and to the long term economic prospects of the farms. It’s still early days, so here’s hoping we’ve not overinflated expectations too much, but it's the sort of ingeniously simple innovation that really could have a huge impact well beyond China's shrimp sector.