Academician Hou Feng died, and he was called the "King of Cucumbers" by his peasant brothers.
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Last Update: 2021-03-14
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# Hou Feng, a vegetable breeding expert affectionately known as the
"King of Cucumbers
" by his peasant brother, died in Tianjin on November # 7, 2020 at the age of 92.
, born on February 3, 1928, in Pingdo, Shandong Province. He graduated from Beijing Agricultural University in 1954. In the 1960s, the first cucumber disease-resistant breeding research was carried out in China. Has presided over the national cucumber breeding science and technology project, in response to the threat of a variety of diseases in cucumber production, the use of hybridization and return of breeding methods, successfully combined disease resistance, prolific and precocious, and gradually overcome cucumber frost mold, white powder disease and withering diseases of these diseases; There are 12 new varieties of cucumbers in the three generations of Yucheng, Jinhe and Jinchun, which are widely promoted in 30 provinces and cities, accounting for more than 80% of the country's cucumber cultivation area, resulting in a cumulative social and economic benefits of 6 billion yuan. The Cucumber Research Institute and its system of breeding, breeding and promoting industrialization have accumulated experience for the transformation of agricultural scientific research units, and the social benefits are remarkable.
Hou Feng research varieties of breeding and promotion, fundamentally improve the backward situation of China's cucumber production, so that cucumbers finally from the "fine vegetables" to today's people all year round can afford to eat the "road vegetables." (Reporter Li Yuan, Guangming Daily All Media)
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