Peng Lai rice celebrates its 88th birthday: Isokoya exhibits the story of rice cultivation

Yesterday was the 88th birthday of a certain VIP whom half the world's population knows; if you have never heard of him, you have surely smelled him, and if you have never smelled him, you have surely eaten him, because this VIP is the Penglai rice we eat every day.

The character for rice can be split apart to resemble "eighty-eight", so 88 is also called the rice longevity. In the 1920s, the father of Taiwan Penglai rice, Iso Eikichi, and his disciple Suenaga Jin, succeeded in planting Japanese rice in the hot and humid Taiwan; on April 24, 1926, the Governor-General's Office officially named the Japanese rice grown in Taiwan "Penglai rice". Yesterday marked the 88th rice longevity of Penglai rice, and the NTU Iso Eikichi House opened its "Story of Taiwan Rice" exhibition area, displaying precious "archaeological puzzles" and old farming tools left by Iso Eikichi, inviting alumni of the Agronomy Department back home to chat about their time living in the Iso House; every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday the public is welcome to come and see the exhibition.

30 years of effort, Penglai rice takes root

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