PEOPLE & POINTS

FATHER OF HYBRID RICE MAKES NEW BREAKTHROUGH

Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, and his team have set a new record with the yield of their third-generation hybrid rice variety reaching 911.7 kg per mu (about 667 square meters) in an experiment in Hunan Province, central China.

Plus an early season rice yield of 619.06 kg, the same plot in Qingzhu Village, Hengnan County, produced 1,530.76 kg per mu in a year. The output is equivalent to 22.96 tons per hectare.

Last year, the same hybrid rice variety, Sanyou No.1, gave a single-cropping yield of 1,046.3 kg per mu from the same plot.

Yuan said he wants to ensure the variety can promote greener and more sustainable