Farmer's hybrid research yields bumper harvest
China Daily | Updated: 2018-06-25 08:13
Fifty years after starting experiments on hybrid wheat, Wang Zhen was happy to see a bumper harvest this year.
The 80-year-old farmer from Linzhang county, Hebei province, rode his tricycle to the fields to watch machines reap a hectare of wheat over the past week.
The average yield of the hybridized wheat, a combination of wheat and couch grass, is 6.78 metric tons a hectare, 2.25 tons more than that of local varieties, Wang said, adding that peers think he is crazy.
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