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Ministry of Agriculture Launches Certification of National-Level Hybrid Seed Production Bases
The Ministry of Agriculture recently issued a notice deciding to carry out the certification of national-level hybrid rice and hybrid corn seed production bases. According to the relevant person in charge of the Seed Management Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, this move aims to implement the spirit of the 2013 No. 1 Central Document and the National Plan for the Development of the Modern Crop Seed Industry
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Is colored corn genetically modified? Agricultural experts: It is actually a hybrid variety
Colored corn has become a new favorite on the tables of Urumqi residents because of its good appearance and sweet taste. Recently, however, it has become caught up in some rumors about genetic modification. In response, agricultural experts say that colored corn is merely a hybrid variety and has nothing to do with genetic modification. On September 9, reporters visited Urumqi
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Why is super rice so high-yielding? Yuan Longping speaks with full confidence about the achievements of hybrid rice
Recently, the hundred-mu demonstration project of the new two-line hybrid rice combination "Chaoyou Qianhao" carried out at the base in Haitang District, Sanya City, Hainan Province, achieved an average yield of 941.79 kg per mu after on-site expert verification, setting the highest rice record in Hainan, China. Regarding this
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Dazhou, Sichuan Conducts Supervisory Spot Checks on the Quality of Two-Hybrid Seeds
In order to effectively strengthen seed quality supervision and ensure the seed use safety of this city's spring "two-hybrid" seeds in 2016. In accordance with the requirements of the Dazhou Municipal Agriculture Bureau's "Notice on Conducting the 2016 Two-Hybrid Seed Quality Supervisory Spot Check Work" (Dashi Nongye Han [2015] No. 7), from January 5 to 8,
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How does super hybrid rice safeguard national food security?
China currently has a population of more than 1.3 billion, and it will soon reach 1.4 billion. At the same time, China's cultivated land is decreasing year by year. Faced with this severe situation of a growing population and shrinking land, the only way to solve the problem of feeding the entire nation is to greatly increase the yield per unit area of food crops through scientific and technological progress.
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Super hybrid rice crop failure raises questions; Longping High-Tech responds: historic low temperatures triggered rice blast
On July 30, 2013, Academician Yuan Longping inspects the growth of super hybrid rice in Shucheng County, Anhui Province. Photo/CFP Recently, Longping High-Tech's super rice Liangyou 0293, affected by rice blast, suffered large-scale total crop failure in Anhui, a major agricultural province, and affected farmers questioned the seed production
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Hybrid rice seed industry sentiment rebounds, pace of superior variety renewal accelerates
In 2014, the domestic hybrid rice seed production area was 1.4 million mu, a decrease of about 230,000 mu from the previous year, down 14.11% year on year; the country's newly produced seed was about 230 million kg, with total output down 42 million kg from last year, a year-on-year decrease of 15.55%. In 2015, the total supply of hybrid rice seed was 355 million
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New Chinese hybrid rice varieties capture overseas markets
In recent years, red-lotus hybrid rice has rapidly captured overseas markets thanks to its high yield, excellent quality and wide adaptability, with its planting area continuously expanding, making it a star in the "going global" push of Chinese hybrid rice varieties. New Chinese hybrid rice varieties capture overseas markets Pakis
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Two-line hybrid rice once again sets a world record
In 2013, the two-line hybrid Y Liangyou 900 reached a yield of 988.1 kg per mu in a 100-mu demonstration, once again setting the world record for the highest yield per unit area of hybrid rice over a relatively large area. The two-line hybrid Y Liangyou 900 reached a yield of 988.1 kg per mu in a 100-mu demonstration. This is the 12th Five-Year Plan undertaken by the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center
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Hybrid corn inventory backlog eases somewhat, hybrid rice remains in surplus
On October 23-24, the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center held the 2014 National Autumn Regular Meeting on the Production, Supply and Demand Situation Analysis of Major Crop Seeds in Tianjin. The meeting analyzed the production of seeds of major crops including corn, rice, wheat, rapeseed, cotton and soybean in 2014 and
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