STORY: China's Guangxi sees bumper harvest of 2-meter-high giant hybrid rice
DATELINE: Aug. 18, 2023
LENGTH: 0:00:50
LOCATION: NANNING, China
CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE
 
SHOTLIST:
1 various of paddy field
2 SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LU XIWAN, Farmer
3 various of paddy field
 
STORYLINE:
 
Farmers in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have reaped a bumper harvest of 2-meter-high "giant rice," a new hybrid rice variety developed by Chinese agricultural experts.

SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LU XIWAN, Farmer
"This year we have planted more than 200 mu (about 13.3 hectares) of giant hybrid rice. The yield increases by 150-200 kg per mu compared with previous years, which is quite a high yield. We plan to expand the paddy field by 100-200 mu next year, hoping to reap another bumper harvest."

China has completely independent intellectual property rights of giant hybrid rice.

Its height doubles that of ordinary rice.

The giant hybrid rice is high-yielding, drought-tolerant, and resistant to diseases and waterlogging.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Nanning, China.
(XHTV)