Focus on Cruciferous Vegetables, Baskets Filled with New Try

In early November, a group of agricultural experts came to a farming demonstration garden in Jinan, Shandong.

These experts came to Jinan not only to see the new varieties they planted, but also to participate in the National Cruciferous Vegetables Academic Seminar and New Variety Exhibition hosted by the Cruciferous Vegetable Branch of the Chinese Horticultural Society and the National Bulk Vegetable Industry Technology System

The planting area of ​​cruciferous vegetables accounts for about 30% of the national vegetable area, while the total vegetable output in China accounts for more than 50% of the world

Nowadays, domestic vegetables have gone from the past "lack of varieties" to the era of prosperity of "multiple varieties", from focusing on "quantity" to focusing on "quality"

"The production scale is large, the cultivation management level is high, and the breeding level is in the first echelon as a whole

China is the origin of cabbage and the home of radishes.

Two years ago, three new spring cabbage varieties-Gaochunhuang, Shengxia 01, and Orange Red 62, developed by Gao Jianwei, a researcher at the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, were a breakthrough in Chinese spring cabbage varieties.

This academic seminar and the exhibition of new varieties were chosen to be held in Shandong because Shandong is the main battlefield of cruciferous vegetables, and many new varieties have chosen to be planted in Qilu for the first time