Yuan Longping: Super rice yield or is about to break the 1200 kg mark

Xinhua) -- China's new network Changsha, September 5 (reporter Liu double Deng Xia Xu Zhixiong) "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping 5 in Changsha, Hunan Province, in an interview with the media revealed that the current attack on the super rice is very good, it is possible in October to break through a large area of mu yield 1200 kg mark.
1990s, Brown, an American economist, asked the world, "Who will feed China?" Against this background, the Ministry of Agriculture of China proposed a super rice breeding program in 1996. Since then, Yuan Longping led the scientific research team through the form improvement and hybrid advantages of the use of a combination of technical routes, successfully overcome the rice ultra-high yield breeding problems, and constantly refresh the yield per mu.
Yuan Longping said that food has always been the most important strategic material for the national economy and people's livelihood. At present, the five phases of the Super Rice Program have been fully completed, with yields of 700 kg, 800 kg, 900 kg, 1000 kg and 1100 kg per mu, respectively.
understood that there are currently four hundred mu of demonstration fields in the country are attacking the mu yield of 1200 kg target. Yuan Longping said that the demonstration field is very good, there are two points are expected to achieve in October this year, mu yield 1200 kg.
Yuan Longping has talked about his two dreams in public many times: one is to "take advantage of the cool dream", that is, the pursuit of super rice high yield, and the other is to cover the global dream, so that super rice out of the country for the benefit of the world.
", the area under hybrid rice cultivation outside China is now 7 million hectares. There are 160 million hectares of rice paddies in the world, and if half of them are planted with hybrid rice, an increase of 2 tons per hectare could feed an an estimated 500 million people per year. Therefore, the development of hybrid rice will make a great contribution to solving the world food shortage problem. Yuan Longping, who was in his early years, said.
Yuan Longping, who has so far stuck to the front line of scientific research, laughs that he has upgraded from "after 80" to "after 90" and that he will be healthy and happy over 100 years old in the future, just like super rice, constantly surpassing new goals. (Complete)