Average yield of new super rice variety reaches 995 kg per mu

(Image source: Photo by Hu Chao/Xinhua News Agency)

On September 17, farmers threshed rice at the on-site yield measurement of the 100-mu plot of Chujing 37. On the same day, an expert group commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture conducted an on-site yield measurement of the 100-mu plot of the new rice variety Chujing 37 in Xiashibei Ba Village, Kejia Village Committee, Jinshan Town, Lufeng County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Xie Huaan, head of the expert group, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and expert of the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, announced that the average yield of 3 randomly selected plots reached 995 kg per mu. The on-site yield measurement of the 100-mu plot of Chujing 37 has exceeded the "super rice" yield certification standard for 3 consecutive years.