First Jade 335: American seed expansion speed is amazing

In Jilin Elm Seed Commercial Street, often see the seeds of the "American blood" words. Gold micro/Photo First Jade 335: American seed expansion speed astonishing first Jade 335 the seed salesman is like a night out of the Earth, they zoucunchuanhu, a stubble to the farmer's home to sell "International Herald Herald" reporter Jinweifa from Taiyuan, Jinzhong, Elm, Beijing "You say how American so good, give me so High-yield corn seed?" Standing on the edge of the endless corn, Shanxi jinzhong farmers Yang Chenggung often have such doubts.　　This spring, he hesitated for a long time, or chose the first Jade 335, their own fields, only set aside an acre of ordinary corn.　　Yang Chenggung in the Zhang Qing Township, first Jade 335 has been flowering throughout the country, according to our correspondent investigation, there are nearly 80%~90% of the corn is the first Jade 335.　　This number makes Shanxi seed station deputy webmaster Hou Quicksand was surprised, she originally estimated, Shanxi only 40%~50% in the field of the first Jade 335, but first Jade 335 actual expansion speed has exceeded her expectations.　　Hard to resist the expansion of the first Jade 335 is the United States DuPont's wholly-owned subsidiary Pioneer International Seed Co., Ltd. in 2000 in China cultivated Corn seed, 2004 began to promote, by its two joint ventures responsible for production and processing. 2006, first Jade 335 began to appear sporadically in Jinzhong earth. Yangcun Zhangjianhong has more than 40 acres of grain, is the early start planting Jade 335 of the farmers, he recalls, in the seed shop in the constant sales, he planted a few acres, production is higher than ordinary corn, the year of 1500~1800 kg,　　The yield of 1000~1200 in ordinary corn field is far from this number. Zhang Red began gradually increasing the amount of corn grown, from 10 mu to 20 mu until the whole area was planted.　　When Zhangjianhong to be the first to eat crabs, the surrounding villagers are still on the sidelines, and when the legend of corn production becomes a reality, the wait-and-see immediately becomes an action. In just 4 years, Yang Village and even Zhangqing has been difficult to find a kind of ordinary corn species.　　Yang Chenggung is one of the few farmers who insist on not using foreign species. "I began to be unmoved because I always suspect that there is no such good thing, adhere to a few years, I found that people around the planted, first Jade 335 is the general trend of the general."　　"Yang Chenggung said.　　From Jinzhong to South Shanxi, first Jade 335 gongchenglvede, just a few years, has occupied a large half of Shanxi corn. In Jilin Elm, the first Jade 335 also expands at an astonishing speed. Yushu Agriculture Bureau related personnel revealed that last year, Yushu about 70% of the corn growers planted first jade 335.　　In the whole east three provinces, this figure is also very astonishing, the seed industry company estimated first Jade 335 already occupies the northeast 70%~80% market share, the Elm Agriculture Bureau's estimate is 30%~40%, but the Chinese Agricultural University plant Genetics breeding Department Professor Wang Shangkun thinks at least is 50%. Zhang Shihuang, an agricultural expert, wrote in the "Agricultural Materials Herald"pointed out that in the national Spring Corn District, 2009 First Jade 335 planting area has reached 24 million Mu, listed the second of the National Corn seed sales, is expected to reach 3500 to 45 million mu in 2010, accounting for the national total area of corn plant 1/10.　　Snowball Marketing In fact, with foreign blood and yield high corn seed is not only the first Jade 335. In the "American Street" title of the Jilin Elm Seed Commercial Street, distributing more than 200 kinds of subsidiaries.　　A lot of billboards, many of them in the prominent position: American blood. The August seed Street seemed particularly deserted, with most of the shops closed.　　Fengze Shop A gatekeeper security told reporters that the seed shop is usually only opened by December, about 20 days before the Lunar New Year. However, there are individual open shops, "Add Mei seed 4S" shop is one.　　The owner of the corn is sold by Canada and the United States jointly developed, in China has been tried for more than five years, in the Elm area also free promotion for three, probably occupy 6000~7000 Jiong (a Jiong 15 mu) share. "Our production is 335 higher than the first jade, but the first Jade 335 or the strong, they accounted for at least half of the market share." "It seemed to her that it was not too early for her shop to open," The pioneer salesman had gone to the countryside as early as July.　　"The first Jade 335 special promotion mode, it is in China's rural rapid expansion of one of the main reasons." Jinzhong Peasant Zhang Junsheng Remember, 2008, Spring not, first Jade 335 seed salesman is like a night out from the soil, they zoucunchuanhu, a stubble to farmers home marketing. Some of these salesmen are from the village and some are native. "In some parts of the country, when the seed salesman became the farmer to get rich."　　Reporter in the interview, sometimes hear the myth of some rich, "the town of So-and-so a year agent seed sales earned 1 million", the villagers talk about these Shireu show envious eyes.　　As the seeds no longer by the state franchise, any self-employed can sell seeds, in the commercial tide of the coerced, a similar MLM seed sales network in rural areas. Three agriculture experts Li Changping inspected this kind of seed sale pattern circulating in the countryside, the salesmen who employed by the stakeholders of the subsidiary company or scientific research institution tended to sell the foreign seeds or even illegal seeds to the seed sales point or the grassroots cadre and masses at low price.　　In the lure of high returns, they zoucunchuanhu to sell and make a snowball effect in the countryside. This kind of sales pattern often causes the hot pursuit upsurge. At the height of the Zhangchao village in the outskirts of Jinzhong, there were dozens of farmers queuing to buy the scene. "The purchase of maize not only requires a deposit, but also requires an ID card, an ID card can only order two packs in advance, some villagers have not bought seeds."　　"Zhangchao Village villagers Zo Kingyu witnessed the" First jade heat. " Hidden risk In fact, Yushu town Su Jia farmers on the Usanyu 335 this year's performance is not satisfied. For weather reasons, firstJade 335 appeared a large number of lodging phenomenon. This year the whole corn land is poured into pieces. "Su Jia's Han Wenping said that the corn in his own home may be reduced by 1/3," said the resistance to lodging, said not resistant to insects, resistant to insects are now the same to drugged.　　"Therefore, for is not also buy first Jade 335 seeds, with the village Yan Hui some hesitation."　　During the interview, several farmers gathered at the Han Wenping home after a heated discussion, or tend to choose this with the United States blood of the corn varieties, "because of the varieties are good with American blood." Speaking of which, several farmers smiled coincidentally, Yan Hui explained: "If two varieties of corn production as high, the final farmers will still choose 335 corn, because it is higher acquisition price." Generally speaking, the first Jade 335 than ordinary corn acquisition price average higher than 2 cents. "First Jade 335 of a large amount of powder, high protein content, it is high-quality food." "Because of the farmers ' heat, the price of 335 seeds is rising." In 2006, the seeds needed to buy an acre of land cost 40 yuan, and this year, it will cost 60 yuan. The price hike made Su Jia farmers a little uneasy. "The seeds were sold by the pound, and now they are sold by the grain," he said. Yan Hui said: "The country's agricultural subsidies, almost (only) enough to buy seeds." "Farmers are worried that the price of seeds will rise further, but they think that, if so, can choose other seeds," anyway, a lot of variety. However, the Elm Seed Street, a shopkeeper is worried, now domestic seeds have been squeezed out of space, "We do not send the farmers, farmers said the seeds are delayed." "She worries that the domestic seed companies will not survive sooner or later," if the domestic seed is gone, there is no cheap seeds for you! "First Jade 335 rapid expansion at the same time, some traditional seed resources are being lost." Shanxi is a big province with a rich variety of corn, but nowadays it is difficult for farmers to see the seeds of the past.　　Yang Chenggung has gone dozens of of years to find a traditional corn crop in the mountains. "Seed industry is related to the problem of food security in our country. "The quicksand worries that if the pioneer control 10 million mu of provenance in Shanxi, they can raise prices at will."　　What worries her more is that if the pioneer does not seed, there will be a huge gap in provenance. "The state encourages state-owned companies to reserve provenance to prevent such gaps, but now seed companies operate commercially, without subsidies, and no one wants to store them."　　"she said. Editor's note: It's so disturbing to be close to the truth "author" Zhanglu "International Herald Leader" article for a weekly newspaper like us, it takes four months to operate a group of reports, both in terms of time and manpower consumption, a bit extravagant. This thought, after compiling this group of reports, suspended four months of heart will be put down.　　But when doubts are answered, when the truth behind them becomes clearer, we find that unease and worry seem to have just begun. May, Jinzhong a farmer to our reporter Jinwei revealed, since the village planted the first jadeAfter 335 corn, the mice gradually became less and closer to disappearing. Kim has been very concerned about the issue of GM, the news reminds him of many foreign scientists in the report mentioned in the food of genetically modified crops caused by animal abnormalities.　　He was sleepless all night for the news, and set foot on the train to Jinzhong to find the truth. Mice become less, sow miscarry ... The animal's various abnormalities are disturbing, also puzzled. Natural enemies become more, corn mildew, ecological pollution ... When all sorts of things could be denied, the only clue that could be associated with all the animals was the food that the animals had eaten-first jade 335.　　Find the cause of the hardships far beyond our imagination, asked all the experts can be asked, whether it is the cause of abnormal animals, or jade 335, have become a computer in the unsolved case. Some experts suspect that the first Jade 335 may be genetically modified corn. We dare not jump to conclusions.　　So far, the relevant government departments have yet to publicly allow genetically modified crops to grow large areas. Genetically modified technology is seen by many people as the future direction of agriculture, from a scientific point of view, we are full of respect for this young technology. Of course, the controversy that it raises cannot be ignored: Many published animal experiments have shown that eating genetically modified foods is risky. After all, this is a young technology, in the last 20 years of its application to real life, mice have multiplied countless generations, and humans have not experienced a life cycle.　　European resistance to genetically modified foods, many American institutions and academic groups have also published a study to warn about the dangers of GM crops to agriculture and health.　　However, we do not have any prejudice and views on technology itself, genetically modified is like a chance to break into our field of vision to explain the possibility of animal abnormalities, and other possible, as we have to pursue the target. In the process of pursuing the reason, we even hope that Shanxi's all sorts of cases are solitary, is accidental. To this end, the reporter again to the first Jade 335 very popular Jilin do survey.　　The fact deepens our uneasiness, where the animal anomaly and Shanxi unexpectedly so similar. To pioneer inquiries, send letters to the Ministry of Agriculture, find the first Jade 335 technical information, visit experts, nearly four months of tracing and duplication of efforts to make people desperate. Almost to give up when an overseas reader sent a first Jade 335 parent information, we seek source, finally found the first Jade 335 and the various links between transgenic technology.　　This is one of the most plausible, or perhaps most probable, explanations for the abnormal animals in Shanxi and Jilin, within our capabilities. But when suspicion is confirmed, and as the truth approaches, we lose the excitement of the media.　　This is such a disturbing set of reports that we do not want the unproven risks that GM technology may have to be tested by us and even our next generation. As a media, we have limited ability to list the clues we can list and to write the possibilities that are closest to the truth. This group of reports is more like a draw, we hope that more agencies and departments, can be in the spirit of science and for the common people responsible attitude, treat our land, and people living in this land. Let us, too, let all who may be at risk, no longer sleep at night for such things.