Chinese hybrid rice sets new world record

September 19, 2011 | Business | Written by

Beijing, Sep 19: The yield of China’s newly-developed hybrid rice breed, known as super rice, has set a new world record, authorities said.

The rice breed, DH2525, produced a harvest of 926.6 kg per mu (0.067 hectare) during its trial plantation in central China’s Hunan province, said the provincial academy of agriculture Monday.

To ensure the accuracy of the yield, a team of experts randomly selected three out of 18 trial plots and supervised the harvest Sunday, reported Xinhua.

DH2525 was developed by Yuan Longping, known as the ‘father of hybrid rice’ who started developing hybrid rice in the 1960s.

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