Agriculture
Chinese scientist Yuan Longping and his team have experimented with rice cultivation in the Dubai tropical desert, which has made great achievements in the two nation's agriculture cooperation.
Yuan Longping and his team have successfully planted seawater hybrid rice in east China's Shandong province, setting a record production of 500 kilograms per mu (0.07 hectare), as he announced on June 10, 2018.
Chinese scientist Yuan Longping selects a "seawater rice" seedling that can survive in saline-alkali soil at the Qingdao Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Center in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, May 28, 2018. [Photo/IC]
The same rice was also successfully planted and harvested a production of 500 kilometers per mu in Dubai. It was the first time in the world that rice was successfully planted in the tropics.
Molecular technology was used in the breeding of the third generation super hybrid rice, according to Yuan, who is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
This will increase at least 30 billion kilograms of grain output to the country every year.
A staff worker transplants rice seedlings in fields in Qingdao, a coastal city in East China's Shandong province, May 20, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
