China News Service, Hohhot, January 21 (Reporter Wu Yana) "It is more popular to live broadcast 'carrying goods' today, and I will be a member of 'carrying goods' today." On the afternoon of the 21st, Yin Yuhe, a member of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Political Consultative Conference, left Go up the committee aisle with two potatoes, one red and one yellow.

  "This potato with red skin and yellow flesh is a kind of potato that we often eat in the central and western regions of Inner Mongolia, and this potato with yellow skin and yellow flesh is a variety independently selected by our Academy of Agricultural Sciences." Yin Yuhe explained holding two potatoes. .

  Yin Yuhe is the president of the Ulanqab Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Science Research Institute, and has been following the development of the potato industry in Inner Mongolia for many years.

"The potato planting area in Inner Mongolia is about 6 million mu, but the varieties we independently bred only account for 10% of the total sown area." Based on this, he has always advocated the way of self-selected potato varieties.

  Foreign potato varieties are planted in Inner Mongolia. Due to the difference in soil quality and climate, they are "unacceptable". This is described by Yin Yuhe as "the body of a young lady and the life of a maid." "We must cultivate according to the land and environment of Inner Mongolia. Drought-resistant, disease-resistant, high-starch potato varieties that are compatible with it.”

  It is understood that it takes 9 to 12 years to develop a potato variety.

Since 2008, Yin Yuhe has introduced more than 100 new demonstration potato varieties from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhangjiakou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanxi Datong Alpine Crop Institute, Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other related units, and selected more than 20 new varieties from them. Varieties suitable for planting in Inner Mongolia should be promoted.

  After unremitting efforts, from the potato breeding progeny materials independently selected by Yin Yuhe and the team, 8 high-generation Mongolian-Wu potato series with a yield of more than 3 tons per mu have been screened out, and they have been demonstrated and promoted in the Ulanqab area.

  "As a scientific researcher, I firmly believe that self-selected varieties can allow farmers to grow and grow, and generate economic benefits." Yin Yuhe said.

  In Lamaban Village, Qitai Town, Shangdu County, Ulanqab City, there are more than 600 greenhouses for the production of potato seed potatoes. Net profit of about 20,000.

This has not only lifted the local people out of poverty, but also made their lives better and better.

  Yin Yuhe suggested that Inner Mongolia should attach importance to the protection and utilization of germplasm resources, and set up a pyramid model team consisting of chief scientists, post experts and comprehensive experimental station masters to improve the innovation level of the seed industry in Inner Mongolia.

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