China is committed to solving hidden hunger, functional crops have landed in Jilin

China News Service, Hunchun, Jilin, May 28 (Reporter Guo Jia) In the Yanbian area of ​​Jilin, which is located at the junction of China, Russia and North Korea, a Chinese research team is engaged in research on “functional agriculture” to help the “hidden hunger” that exists all over the world.

On the 28th, the reporter joined the team of Professor Han Junyou from the School of Plant Sciences of Jilin University in Hunchun City, Yanbian Prefecture, Jilin Province to plant a new rice variety developed by the school.

Han Junyou introduced to reporters that the body's intake of carbohydrates, fats, and protein can eliminate "obvious hunger", but long-term insufficient intake of essential micronutrients can cause a variety of health problems.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about 2 billion people worldwide are suffering from "hidden hunger".

Han Junyou introduced that "functional agriculture" refers to the fact that crops grow in a soil environment rich in natural beneficial ingredients through nutrition fortification technology, so that agricultural products can contain selenium, zinc and other nutrients in a quantitative manner.

It is understood that in the past ten years, China's crop nutrition fortification project has focused on the goal of improving micronutrients such as iron, zinc and vitamin A, and has carried out work on the four major crops of rice, wheat, corn and sweet potato.

Han Junyou believes that the main reasons for the lack of micronutrients in agricultural products include soil degradation and improper cultivation measures.

"For example, we use the biogas residue and biogas slurry produced by a local pig farm, and then add different elements according to different crops in different regions, and formulate different formulas.

In the past four years, Jilin University has set up a number of teaching and research bases and related testing platforms in Yanbian Prefecture.

Han Junyou frankly said that the early investment in crop nutrition fortification technology is very large, and it often takes years of cultivation, but once the breeding is successful, the benefits are also huge.

Han Junyou said that in the past few decades, China has solved the problem of "eat enough" through the development of high-yield agriculture, and solved the problem of "safe eating" through the development of green agriculture, and now it is committed to let people "eat healthy".