Beijing, China
July 13, 2011
It was reported, on July 5, 2011, from the national working conference on research and promotion of super rice, held in Changchun, Jilin Province, by the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) that, in developing super rice during the period of the 12th Five-Year Plan, China would, guided by the Scientific Outlook on Development, focus on the production of high-yield, fine-quality, efficient, environmental-friendly and safe super rice, and adhere to the three-phase principle of “promoting the application of research results, deepening the study and extension, and striving for the final goal.
” We would take efforts to promote innovation in breeding methods, speed up selection and breeding, develop supporting techniques, encourage demonstration and extension, expand total growing area, increase the yield per unit area and improve quality and efficiency, in a bid to advance the large-scale, standardized and industrialized production of high-quality super rice. We would spare no pains to carry out the “31511” project, i.e. by 2015, we would have bred more than 30 varieties of super rice, increased the area planted with super rice by over 150 million mu annually, increased the output per mu by 100 jin (50 kg) on average, and improved the efficiency by saving more than 100 yuan per mu, in order to get science and technology to better support the work of national food security.
It is learned that after 15-year continued improvement in and 5-year support to super rice with special programs, a total of 83 new varieties have been identified by the MOA and applied to all major rice growing areas across the country. During the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan, the accumulated area planted with these new varieties amounted to 414 million mu and the average yield per mu reached 575.2 kg, an increase of 67.9 kg. Thus, the accumulated increase of rice yield totaled 5.619 million tons during that period, making great contribution to China’s seven consecutive years of increase in rice production and to the new record in rice yield per unit area.
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