Himalayan News Service

Zhengzhou, March 1:

Chinese agronomists have cultivated a new species of ‘super corn’ with an average per-hectare yield approaching 15,000 kg, reports Xinhua. Agro-scientists here have developed the new ‘super corn’ strain with their own intellectual property right through repeated experiments for dozens of years, according to sources at the city’s grain wholesale market.

The high-yield, high-quality new ‘super corn’ strain will be of great significance in boosting China’s food grain production and is regarded as another major breakthrough in the agro-scientific research following the development of ‘super rice’. According to Zhao Jiuran, director of the Corn Research Centre in the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forest, the centre sorted out and cultivated four new species of hybrid maize with per hectare yield up to 13,500 kg in 2004.