The National Saline-tolerant Rice Technology Innovation Center was established in Sanya
It is one of the dreams of Academician Yuan Longping to grow rice in more saline-alkali land and achieve high yield and high efficiency.
On March 16, the National Saline-tolerant Rice Technology Innovation Center was established in Sanya, which will promote the improvement of my country's grain technology innovation and ecological restoration capabilities of saline-alkali land, and open up the space for my country to break through the space of "grain storage in the land" and expand the reserves of "grain storage in technology". new path.
Comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land is an important way to solve the problem of food security in my country.
According to statistics, 100 million mu of saline-alkali land with potential for rice cultivation in the country is an important strategic reserve arable land.
It is a major project to cultivate and apply saline-alkali-tolerant rice (commonly known as "sea rice") varieties and their supporting key technologies.
In 2022, the Central No. 1 document pointed out that "the classification and transformation of saline-alkali land will promote the transformation from the main control of saline-alkali land-adapted crops to the selection of more saline-alkali-tolerant plants to adapt to saline-alkali land."
Li Zhijian, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, said that after nearly a year of preparation, the center has achieved phased results in terms of platform establishment, talent team, and scientific and technological research. Alkaline rice varieties.
"The National Salt and Alkali Tolerance Rice Technology Innovation Center is the third one approved for construction among the first batch of 20 national technology innovation centers in the country. It has a very high strategic position and strong influence." Deputy Department of Hainan Provincial Department of Science and Technology Director Liu Zuokai introduced to the reporter of Science and Technology Daily that the construction of the center was a heavyweight platform that Academician Yuan Longping proposed to relevant state departments during his lifetime and personally promoted the development and growth of the national salt-tolerant rice cause.
The reporter learned that the center is led by the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center and jointly established by Hainan University, Sanya Nanfan Science and Technology Research Institute, Qingdao Sea Rice Research and Development Center Co., Ltd., Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other units.
The center is headquartered in Sanya, taking overall control of business and management, and implementing the model of "headquarters, research centers, regional sub-centers, and test stations/bases" to achieve the relative concentration of national strengths to the greatest extent possible, and to connect with local governments. Support, fully mobilize manpower, material resources, and platforms to coordinate research and construction of this major project.
The center covers all the typical saline-alkali land ecological regions in the country, and its research fields cover germplasm resources, biotechnology, genetic breeding, crop cultivation, soil fertilizer, agricultural ecology, agricultural information and agricultural machinery.
In terms of variety research and development, the goal is to cultivate 10-15 new varieties of rice with great application value suitable for planting in different saline-alkali land ecological zones by 2030, with a production capacity of 100 million mu nationwide, and a yield per mu of more than 300 kg .