The seed industry needs brainstorming in 2015.

With the development of science and technology and the continuous improvement of varieties, the upgrading of varieties in China has helped to achieve a breakthrough in the national average grain yield per mu in recent years.

Sow a crop of millet in spring and reap ten thousand grains in autumn. Time is surging in the spring and autumn seeds of the year, and human beings thrive in the harvest of farming season after season. The seed carries infinite hope and returns the golden harvest.

Seed is the most basic and irreplaceable means of production, and it is also the most careful agricultural material that farmers choose every year. With the development of science and technology and the continuous improvement of varieties, the upgrading of varieties in China has helped to achieve a breakthrough in the national average grain yield per mu in recent years. According to the statistics of relevant departments, every step of grain production in China is closely related to breakthrough varieties. The promotion of hybrid rice in the 1980s and compact corn in the 1990s increased the yield of rice and corn by nearly 100 kg per mu respectively. In the "eleven consecutive growth" of grain, the upgrading of fine varieties has also played an irreplaceable important role. At present, the extension area of the three staple grain varieties in China has accounted for more than 60% of the planting area, especially the promotion of Liangyou series super rice varieties and high-yield maize varieties such as Zhengdan 958 and Jundan 20, which has strongly supported the rapid improvement of grain yield per unit area.

However, as new varieties continue to set new high-yield records and challenge biological limits, we should pay more attention to the field performance of these varieties and farmers' yields. Farmers say yes is really good, and the seeds that farmers love to plant are good seeds. Now, all kinds of industries are talking about Internet thinking and explosive thinking. When making bowl noodles in restaurants, you have to specify the brand of flour, the cooking time of chicken soup, and even the temperature of the soup when it is served. 1 million copies of a bowl of noodles are sold in two months. The same is true for the seed industry, figuring out the needs of users and providing a better experience is the lifeline of a variety, and it is the ultimate means of whether a variety can survive and how long it can survive. So, what kind of variety is the variety that the farmers talk about?

The first is the seed that adapts to mechanization.

The past 2014, with corn, is a year of great changes and great opportunities, and this "hidden" may trigger a new round of fierce competition for market share in reality this year, or a few years further away. "Don't you see? if the corn kernels are sold directly off the machine, who wants to turn them around?" At the end of the year, the ridicule of a senior person in the seed industry pointed out the needs of farmers and poked the excitement of corn breeders and enterprise bosses. Mechanical grain harvest varieties are considered to be another major change in corn production after the era of "single-grain sowing" initiated by Xianyu 335 in that year. You can imagine how much benefit the simplicity of drying, storage, threshing and other links will bring to many large grain growers, and how welcome they will be to change from "corn cob" to "corn kernel".

The second is the seeds that adapt to light and simplified farming.

In the scientists' experimental fields, in order to test the ultimate yield of a variety, it will even be planted at a density of one plant per square meter to maintain unsheltered sunlight and ventilation, and the whole growing period will be monitored and closely tracked. However, the yield produced by such intensive cultivation is impossible for the peasants. During an interview in Northeast China, the author once heard that in the past, when big machinery was not so popular, when farmers were robbing to plant corn, they hired people to sow seeds in the fields-as long as they were planted, they could harvest, but they really didn't care about what they were planted. Especially at present, young and middle-aged migrant workers go to work in cities and 3860 troops farm land; or farmers tend to be part-time while they work while farming, and these new changes in production relations are bound to give rise to new demand for seeds. some "skinny" seeds and seeds adapted to light and simplified farming are widely welcomed by farmers.

The third is the seed with good resistance.

In the interview, we found that most of the large grain growers who grow more than a few hundred mu of land will not grow the same variety, as the saying goes, "do not put eggs in one basket." Some large households say bluntly that a high insurance coefficient is even more important than a high yield, so varieties with relatively stable yields such as lodging resistance, disease and insect resistance, drought and wind resistance are the first choice for large grain growers.