Zhao Zhihai "Zhang Zagu" suggests increasing investment in breeding.

Original title: Zhao Zhihai, deputy to the National people's Congress and director of the Millet Research Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.

It is suggested to increase the investment in hybrid millet breeding.

Zhao Zhihai, a deputy to the National people's Congress (CCTV network)

"Hybrid millet has the characteristics of high yield and high quality, water saving and drought resistance, labor saving and high efficiency, barren tolerance, wide adaptability and so on." Zhao Zhihai, deputy to the National people's Congress and director of the Millet Research Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, said: "popularizing and developing hybrid millet plays an important role in increasing grain production in dry land, ensuring national food security, promoting high efficiency and water saving in agriculture, and promoting the coordinated development of agriculture and animal husbandry." the prospect of popularization and development is extremely broad. "

Zhao Zhihai, who has tackled key problems for more than 30 years and successfully cultivated a series of new varieties of "Zhang Zagu", put forward suggestions on strengthening the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries of hybrid millet at the two sessions this year.

In 2016, the No. 1 document of the CPC Central Committee clearly pointed out that to promote the structural reform on the agricultural supply side, it is necessary to focus on six key tasks: adjusting the structure, improving quality, promoting integration, reducing costs, removing inventory, and making up for deficiencies. "the characteristics of high yield and water saving, low chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and green health of hybrid millet provide a strategic option for promoting China's agricultural supply-side structural reform, and will play an important role in dry farming. It is an important food crop for saving water, increasing grain, increasing feed, increasing land and increasing farmers' income." Zhao Zhihai told reporters, "there is a planting space of 200 million mu of hybrid millet in China. In semi-arid areas with annual precipitation of 300mm ~ 400mm along the Great Wall and in the sickle Bay area, 100 million mu of hybrid millet is planted, which can increase grain by 10 billion kg and save water by 10 billion cubic meters." In the irrigated areas of Inner Mongolia, hybrid millet can open up a new millet planting area of 100 million mu, which can not only increase the grain area, but also increase the amount of forage. "

In order to adjust the planting structure, the first thing we need is to adapt to the newly adjusted crop varieties, and the proposal of changing grain to feed has given millet, which is called "the first of the five grains," a chance to display its talents. After testing, the dry gluten content of "Zhang Zagu" is 6%-8%, while that of corn straw is only 3%-4%; the whole plant gluten content is 14%-16%; and the nutrition is balanced, which is suitable for the nutritional needs of animals and can be used as high-quality forage for animals. Zhao Zhihai said that it has been proved by experiments that feeding sheep with cereal grass can improve the lambing rate, survival rate and mutton quality. Zhao Zhihai called on: "We should constantly increase investment in hybrid millet breeding and extend the hybrid millet industry chain."

In order to protect the interests of hybrid millet farmers, enhance their enthusiasm to expand the cultivation of hybrid millet, give full play to the advantages of high yield, drought resistance and water saving of hybrid millet, and let hybrid millet make due contribution to China's agriculture, Zhao Zhihai said: "as a breeder, it is my duty to continue to cultivate excellent hybrid millet varieties. In addition, I propose to start the protective acquisition of millet, bring millet into the scope of national policy acquisition in the main producing areas, promote the process of staple millet food, give policy support and financial support to millet farmers, and give policy support to millet deep processing transformation enterprises. to achieve the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries. " (our reporter Wang Peng)