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To: RealMuLan who wrote (4487)	3/2/2005 6:31:28 PM
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China working on strains of 'super corn': [Technology India]: BEIJING, March 2 : Agronomists in China claim to have developed a strain of "super corn" designed to provide a dramatic boost to acreage yields, state media report. The People's Daily said researchers working with four new species of hybrid maize reached yields of 13,500 kilograms per hectare last year.Zhao Jiuran, the director of the Corn Research Center, a unit under the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, was quoted as saying China was closing in on the goal of developing strains capable of raising the per hectare yield to 15,000 kilograms, a volume qualifying it as "super corn."Citing an unnamed source in Beijing's grain wholesale market, the report said new species now being cultivated are approaching super corn yield output. The high-yield, high-quality new "super corn" strain will be of great significance in boosting China's food grain production, which is regarded as another major breakthrough in the agro-scientific research following the development of "super rice".Local experts forecast China will be capable of producing an additional 6 billion kilograms of corn per year if the new species is planted on 2.66 million hectares.- -- Copyright 2005 by United Press International. newkerala.com