Recently, the news of the successful trial planting of "giant rice" in Dazu District of Chongqing has aroused heated discussion on the Internet.

The height of this kind of rice is more than 2 meters, twice that of conventional rice, and the yield per mu is expected to reach 1600 Jin. Some netizens lamented that Grandpa Yuan Longping's "dream of enjoying the cool under the grass" was about to come true.

In fact, in Sichuan, in the past two years, some places have also planted "giant rice", which has also played a unique advantage in the comprehensive planting and breeding of rice and fishery.

On September 2, taking advantage of the sunny weather, liaoxuanchun, Secretary of the Party branch of Shuguang village, longkong Town, Qianwei County, Leshan City, came to the field early in the morning and arranged for the villagers to go down to the field to harvest rice. The paddy field is full of water, and the water depth is below the calf. As soon as the farmers get out of the field, a group of fish are scared and flee everywhere.

"Look, this is our giant rice. The ears of rice are higher than human heads." Liao Xuanchun stood on Tian Geng and was introduced to others. These two days, Shuguang village has harvested 30 or 40 mu of giant rice, "the yield per mu is about 1100-1200 Jin, which is more than 300 Jin higher than that of hybrid rice in the past."

The locally grown giant rice is a new rice variety developed by Xia Xinjie, a researcher at the Institute of subtropical agricultural ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, after more than 10 years of experiments. It has the advantages of high yield, lodging resistance, flooding resistance and so on.

"The theoretical yield of giant rice can reach 1600-2000 Jin / mu, but the light and heat conditions here are worse, especially in the recent period of continuous rain and insufficient light, which cannot reach the theoretical yield." Qianwei County agricultural and rural Bureau official said, but compared with ordinary rice, the yield is not low.