New varieties of grain and cash crops were bred in China during the 12th five-year Plan period.

In recent years, important breakthroughs have been made in independent innovation of crop varieties and tackling key problems in production technology. more than 370 new varieties of grain and cash crops have been bred during the 12th five-year Plan period, forming a number of original and major achievements. to lay the foundation for the "ten consecutive increases" of grain output.

This is what the reporter learned from the press conference held by the Information Office of the Ministry of Agriculture on the 10th.

Tang Ke, director of the Science, Technology and Education Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said at a press conference that in recent years, China has cultivated a large number of new crop varieties with high yield, good quality and strong stress resistance. The cultivated high-quality fragrant rice varieties account for more than 70% of the domestic high-grade fragrant rice market, breaking the monopoly of foreign varieties in the high-grade rice market. Jimai 22, a new wheat variety cultivated, accounts for 12% of the total wheat planting area in the country. A series of new maize varieties have repeatedly created large-scale high-yield records in Huang-Huai-Hai and other areas. In addition, 23 new breeds of livestock and poultry, 35 new varieties of forage and 19 new varieties of aquaculture have been cultivated.

According to reports, China has developed a number of advanced and practical technologies that are light, simplified and standardized. The high-yield cultivation techniques of deep pine developed by the research and development have increased corn production by an average of 150 kg per mu in the demonstration area; developed a large number of efficient, portable, and labor-saving agricultural mechanization equipment; and integrated a number of major pest prevention and control techniques, effectively improving the ability of agricultural production to prevent and reduce disasters.

Tang Ke pointed out that the contribution rate of China's agricultural scientific and technological progress reached 55.2% in 2013. The new progress in agricultural science and technology is also reflected in the remarkable achievements made in the reform and construction of agricultural technology extension system at the grass-roots level, the establishment of a trading platform for the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements, and new progress in the construction of agricultural scientific research platform and innovative talent team. it has constructed a new system for the cultivation of professional farmers, which has injected source power and new vitality into agricultural production.