Chapter 166, Rice with a Profound Relationship
"It's really promising, not to mention growing crops with high economic value, even ordinary crops, with this yield and high quality, there is a lot of profit margin."
"In the case of rice, as far as I know, although the yield of popular hybrid rice is getting higher and higher, which is a good solution to the food needs of our country's huge population, hybrid rice also has many shortcomings."
"We only see a great increase in rice yields, but we ignore the great reduction in rice quality."
"The rice on our table now is all hybrid rice, which is hard and rough when you eat it, and once it is cold, it is like a stone, like a stone, not at all like the rice you eat, and sometimes it is jokingly called high-yield stone rice."
Li Fu also nodded after listening, he is also from a research background in biotechnology, and Li Fu is still relatively good at these.
"Brother Fu is right, our Huaxia is the first country in the world to plant rice, our ancestors started from Emperor Yan of Shennong, for thousands of years, we have been planting rice, and thousands of years of rice research, after thousands of years of cultivation, to create the best rice."
"I remember that until the 70s of the last century, our Chinese rice was still the best in the world, the best quality. At that time, the rice in Wuxi, Changshu, Huzhou, Jiaxing and other places in the south of the Yangtze River was transparent and crystalline, soft and glutinous and sweet, and its quality and taste were much better than those in the world, and much better than the rice in Japan and Thailand. At that time, the white stalk rice was better than Japanese rice and Thai indica rice, and this white stalk was actually just the rice eaten by ordinary people, and it was not the best. However, today, our rice in China is the worst in the world, and even foreigners do not eat rice produced in China. ”
Speaking of this, Gu Feng seemed a little distressed, he didn't understand these things before, but since he studied rice, he also has some understanding of the history of Chinese rice and the development of rice in the world.
"I also heard that in order to protect the country's agriculture, all the rice grown in Thailand is still traditional rice, not hybrid rice, and it is also strictly forbidden to grow hybrid rice, which is why Thai rice is so famous, although the yield is far inferior to hybrid rice, but the quality is one of the best in the world."
"Thai rice does taste much better than the hybrid rice we grow now, and the nutritional value is also very high."
Chen Bin also nodded, he is now a senior executive of the company, his income is high, and the living standard of his family has naturally kept up, and the rice he eats is imported Thai rice.
"We have done experimental analysis, hybrid rice and traditional rice, compared with traditional rice, the nutrition is far from the same, there are many trace elements are much worse, and hybrid rice rice is more difficult to digest, not to mention the taste, and there is a hidden risk."
"Hybrid rice because of hybrid rice, in fact, the same as genetically modified crops, will have some risks to the human body that cannot be seen now, we do not know."
Gu Feng continued, the study of rice, of course, has been studied in all aspects, the analysis of nutrients is naturally indispensable, and the criteria for evaluating the quality of rice are nothing more than those few, nutrition, taste, and so on.
"Hybrid rice is also a matter of no way, at that time our country's population exploded, if we only rely on traditional rice varieties, we simply could not feed more than a billion people, I heard my grandparents talk about when I was a child, there were many brothers and sisters, it was very difficult to eat a full meal, the yield of traditional rice was too low, and the ability to resist pests and diseases was very poor."
Li Fu thought carefully and slowly spoke, hybrid rice to replace traditional rice is also a last resort, Huaxia's population is too huge, if there is no hybrid rice researched by Academician Yuan Longping, Huaxia does not know how many people will starve to death, although hybrid rice now seems to have many shortcomings, but this does not deny Yuan Longping's great contribution.
China is not like Thailand, Thailand is a small country, the geographical location is very superior, located in the tropics, light, precipitation is very abundant, very suitable for rice planting, three crops a year can be done, the same seed in Thailand is higher than China, not to mention that it can be more than a year.
Thailand can continue to seed traditional rice varieties without scruples, but not in China, because the food consumed by more than one billion people every day is too huge, and there is no choice, so we can only meet everyone's appetite first, as for the taste, nutrition, not easy to digest, whether there are hidden dangers, etc. are all secondary considerations.
"These problems are not a problem in space, if we in Huaxia can grow large-scale seed rice in space, we can actually use the seeds passed down from our ancestors."
"There is no need to worry about pests and diseases in space, let alone light, and even ordinary rice can yield twice as much as the highest-yielding hybrid rice."
Gu Feng nodded slightly, he was now an expert in rice research, so he naturally knew this.
"If you count the reasonable use of space, the factor that can be planted throughout the year is in it, this yield should actually be more than ten times, most of our areas in China are one crop a year, although many places can be two crops a year, but no one will plant two crops."
"We can do it in space, even if we calculate the longest 120-day cycle of Northeast rice, we can still harvest three times a year without any loss of quality."
After listening to Gu Feng's words, everyone present couldn't help but nodded, there may be many restrictions on the development of agriculture in space, such as the need to transport water from the earth, the need to build a space agriculture base, etc., the premise investment is very huge, but with the development of aerospace aircraft, these restrictions are no longer a problem.
On the contrary, the advantages of space agriculture can be reflected, such as sufficient light, unlimited space, greatly improved crop yields in microgravity environment, no pests and diseases, no need to use pesticides, etc., all of which are not available on the earth.
"It seems that we can increase investment in space agriculture in the future, build a large-scale space farmland as soon as possible, and come up with high-quality, high-yield, and high-economic space agriculture for the world to see, so that our domestic forces will also follow."
"At that time, we Chinese people will be able to eat good rice like our ancestors again, instead of eating hybrid rice."
Chen Bin also nodded, seeing the vast prospects of space agriculture, and of course, more importantly, it can make Chinese people eat rice with confidence.
"Eating is a very important thing, whether the health is good or not actually has a lot to do with eating, I used to serve in the national air force, the rice that our army and air force eat is traditional rice, the taste is quite good, the taste is very good, nutritious, these are special space rice."
"If it's an astronaut, they eat better, and everything they eat is specially grown with special products, so they are in very good health to be able to withstand the heavy pressure of astronauts."
Luo Xiaoyao has a lot of say in this area and knows the importance of eating for the body.
"The people take food as the sky, this is not only to say that the people should be full, but also to eat well, and the quality of physical fitness and the food are also very related."
"The height of Westerners is generally higher than that of us Easterners, because the proportion of meat in their diet is higher.
"Now in our Chinese food, hybrid rice and genetically modified food account for a large proportion, and genetically modified food is banned in many countries, even hybrid rice people in Western countries do not eat it."
"Although our current research is not yet sure whether genetically modified foods and acrobatic rice are harmful to humans, it does not mean that we can let our guard down because of this."
Gu Feng nodded, how a person's body is is actually largely related to eating, people who often eat meat are generally red-faced, and people who eat vegetables every day are generally thinner.
"Gu Feng, leave this part of the matter to you, you need funds, manpower, technical support, etc., you can tell me, we are like Chen Bin said, first build a large agricultural field in space, as a typical example, we must drive the domestic forces of Huaxia to invest in this piece, so that more people can eat the rice of their ancestors."
Li Fu pondered carefully in his mind, and then seemed to have made up his mind, and slowly said to Gu Feng.
Li Fuke knew from the civilization seeds of the super civilization Dahan Science and Technology Empire that the more advanced the cosmic civilization, the more attention it paid to the management of the diet of its citizens, and the ordinary citizens of the Dahan Science and Technology Empire generally ate a kind of rice rich in vitality - purple spirit rice.
Only by eating well, the physical fitness of the human body will be better, the life expectancy can be greatly improved, the improvement of the overall national life expectancy is also an important indicator to measure the level of development of a civilization, even on the earth, to measure the human development index of a country, the average life expectancy is also a very important indicator.
Although the population of China is huge, it is actually far inferior to that of Western countries in terms of the physical quality of the human body, and it is actually very difficult to select qualified pilots in China in terms of selecting and appointing air force pilots, not to mention that eyesight alone is enough to eliminate too many and too many people.
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