Yangling Agricultural High Council: new hope for farmers to become rich under the "sowing" of spaceflight vegetable seeds

Pumpkin with the size of a grinding plate, towel gourd more than one meter long, eggplant the size of a volleyball. At the 17th Yangling Agricultural High Conference, these space vegetables cultivated by the seeds of the spacecraft "swimming" in space have become the favored objects of many exhibitors. Some farmers say they hope to learn space vegetable cultivation techniques as soon as possible and find one more way to get rich.

According to the reporter's understanding, these space vegetables with large size and strange shape are all cultivated through space breeding technology. Relevant experts explain that space breeding technology is a method of carrying selected crop seeds onto a spaceship or a recoverable satellite, and through special environmental mutagenesis treatments such as heavy particles in space, alternating magnetic fields, microgravity, and high vacuum, the seeds themselves are broken, deleted, translocated, and recombined, and after returning to the ground, new crop varieties are cultivated through strict breeding.

Mr. Xiao from Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province bought more than 500 yuan of space vegetable seeds at a time on the 3rd. He told reporters that his family started farm music, bought some space gourd, doll pumpkin seeds to try, but also to add some bright color to the courtyard.

Gao Yanhui, a researcher at the Gansu Provincial Aerospace breeding Engineering and Technology Research Center, told reporters that the yield of new vegetable varieties bred by space breeding technology is 15% 20% higher than that of the dominant varieties in suitable planting areas, and can be increased by 30% and 50% in some areas. At the same time, space vegetables have good disease resistance, low temperature and low light resistance, and strong growth potential, and their rich nutrients such as vitamin C and soluble solids are also 10% 183% higher than ordinary vegetables. Gao Yanhui said that some strangely shaped space vegetables are also available for people to watch.

According to the organizers, the seeds of space vegetables such as Hangjiao 4 and Hangge 5 were warmly welcomed by the farmers attending the meeting. three days before the meeting, sales reached more than 120000 yuan.

Gao Yanhui said: after several years of testing, demonstration and transformation of achievements, the new varieties of space vegetables have been extended to 25 provinces and regions, including Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, and Sichuan, Guizhou, Fujian, and Hebei. Among them, Hangjiao 4, as the main variety, was widely planted in Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and other major pepper producing areas. By the end of 2009, the cumulative extension area of new space vegetable varieties has reached 960000 mu, and the agricultural value-added has reached more than 700 million yuan.