'Super rice' to yield record 15 tons per hectare

[TaiShang]

'Super rice' to yield record 15 tons per hectare
CCTV.com

10-10-2014

China’s yield of what has been dubbed 'super rice' will top over fifteen tons per hectare, setting a new world record.

The new kind of hybrid rice is growing in Central China’s Hunan Province. On Friday, experts reaped a sample field of the rice, and after making calculations, they estimate that its final average output will reach about 15.4 tons per hectare, compared to the national average of 7.2 tons per hectare.

Yuan Longping, known as China’s 'father of hybrid rice', is leading the program. Yuan has been researching hybrid breeds since the 1960s. The current experiment is the fourth phase of the program.

Yuan Longping, known as China’s 'father of hybrid rice'

 

[The Great One]

Hopefully, not another Monsanto.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Excellent.

We have the 3rd largest amount of arable land out of any country in the world, with the scientific approach to increasing agriculture yield (including mechanization) we should be able to reach a high and sustained level of self-sufficiency in terms of food.

Which, needless to say, is vital for national security and self-dependence.

Personally, I could have a very good meal with just some plain rice (which can be made into congee) and a tiny bit of 鹹魚。Now that is efficiency.

 

[cirr]

Excellent.


Personally, I could have a very good meal with just some plain rice (which can be made into congee) and a tiny bit of 鹹魚。Now that is efficiency.

It will set you back no more than 3 yuan a meal here in Shanghai。

Chicken stock congee，1 yuan a bowl。Anyone？

One USD a day。

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

It will set you back no more than 3 yuan a meal here in Shanghai。

Chicken stock congee，1 yuan a bowl。Anyone？

One USD a day。

It would cost a bit more than that here in HK, but still very cheap. And so very tasty.

And it means China is not so vulnerable to food sanctions, since a good meal is so easy to make. Just plain rice cooked with some water to make congee, with a small pinch of 鹹魚 (or maybe a bit of 鹹鴨蛋 instead).

And that's already a fantastic meal.

I even tried making my own 鹹鴨蛋 once, it's not difficult at all.

 

[Maxtini]

Experimental rice yield will often produce far higher yield than what the farmer will produce in actual setting.

With 15 ton/ha in experimental, I bet it will only be 8 to 9 tons/ha at most.

 

[Aepsilons]

Excellent.

We have the 3rd largest amount of arable land out of any country in the world, with the scientific approach to increasing agriculture yield (including mechanization) we should be able to reach a high and sustained level of self-sufficiency in terms of food.

Which, needless to say, is vital for national security and self-dependence.

Personally, I could have a very good meal with just some plain rice (which can be made into congee) and a tiny bit of 鹹魚。Now that is efficiency.

You're a minimalist eh, bro? lol. For me, i can survive on rice and grilled sanma. With soy sauce and lemon on the side.

Healthy eating !

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

You're a minimalist eh, bro? lol. For me, i can survive on rice and grilled sanma. With soy sauce and lemon on the side.

Healthy eating !

I wouldn't say I'm a minimalist exactly, but I do love minimalist dishes. I can easily and happily survive on just plain rice, and a bit of 鹹魚。 Or the similar dish, congee and 鹹鴨蛋。

Hell, even just congee and youtiao for me is a delicacy. And I often eat that for breakfast:

So if there are ever food sanctions, or global food crises, etc. then it won't be too bad for us, since minimalist dishes are so good that many people consider them delicacies. I surely consider congee and 鹹鴨蛋 a delicacy, even though it is cheap and easy to make even at home.

Or my breakfast favorite, some zhaliang:

Heaven. And takes the most basic ingredients to make.

 

[Aepsilons]

I wouldn't say I'm a minimalist exactly, but I do love minimalist dishes. I can easily and happily survive on just plain rice, and a bit of 鹹魚。 Or the similar dish, congee and 鹹鴨蛋。

Hell, even just congee and youtiao for me is a delicacy. And I often eat that for breakfast:

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So if there are ever food sanctions, or global food crises, etc. then it won't be too bad for us, since minimalist dishes are so good that many people consider them delicacies. I surely consider congee and 鹹鴨蛋 a delicacy, even though it is cheap and easy to make even at home.

Or my breakfast favorite, some zhaliang:

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Heaven. And takes the most basic ingredients to make.

Now I'm just hungry! lol!

 

[syedali73]

There is nothing tastier and healthier than the minimalist food(s). In the presence of so many things and sauces, the real taste either gets diluted or masked. My favorite is plain white rice with fried chicken (I remove skin before eating) or grilled Pomfret. I eat to live, not live to eat... for most of the time!

 

[Aepsilons]

There is nothing tastier and healthier than the minimalist food(s). In the presence of so many things and sauces, the real taste either gets diluted or masked. My favorite is plain white rice with fried chicken (I remove skin before eating) or grilled Pomfret. I eat to live, not live to eat... for most of the time!

Well said. For me, I always abide by the old adage, "Eat to feed your stomach, don't eat to fill your soul!". Too much soul food leads to morbid obesity and associated health problems.

 

[TaiShang]

Breakthrough in increasing per hectare output of hybrid rice
CCTV.com

10-16-2014 20:51 BJT


During his speech at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Premier Li spoke of the need to jointly fight world hunger. In fact, the FAO has estimated, that over the next decade, the demand and supply of the world’s three major cereals: wheat, rice and corn, will be tight. And, with more than a billion people to feed, China has been continually making efforts to increase productivity of its predominant staple food: rice.

On the 34th World Food Day, we look at how Yuan Longping, also known as the "father of hybrid rice" in China, may have just made a crucial breakthrough, that could potentially ease a bit of the problem of world hunger.

The new target is 15 tons of output per hectare. To achieve this goal, Yuan Longping and his team have chosen twenty-eight test fields this year across China’s rice production areas. As the rice harvest nears completion, we visited him at the Hybrid Research Center in Hunan.

"We have just received output calculations for the test field in Hunan province’s Longhui County, and it’s 15.1 tons per hectare. We’ve hit our output target," Yuan said.

A member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and in his eighties, Yuan Longping is the leader of Hunan’s hybrid rice research. He’s helped raise the output of hybrid rice from 10 tons in 2000 to over 14 tons.

For half a century, Yuan Longping and his team have been pushing the boundaries of hybrid rice output. They have achieved every target that has been set, no matter how unlikely it may have seemed in the beginning. Now this inspiring achievement they have made recently, is just a new starting line.

He is ready to push the output to another height... 16 tons per hectare by 2020.

"We mainly use two measures to improve hybrid rice. One is Morphological improvement, the other is heterosis utilization of intermediate hybrids. We also use Molecular Technologies," he said.

As the natural conditions vary in different areas, the average output of hybrid rice may only be seventy to eighty percent of what it is in test fields. And as Yuan pointed out, it may take at least another two years to promote these new varieties for mass cultivation.

 

[Arya Desa]

Personally I can't eat non-basmati rice.

 

[cirr]

Yuan's ultimate goal is to yield 22 tons per hectare。

250 million mu of rice paddies use the old man's seeds。

 

[oFFbEAT]

Hope the nutritional value is not affected.....