Seeding the future of food

Seeds are the "chips" of agriculture. Academian Yuan Longping spent more than 50 years turning a wild rice seed into a "super rice" that benefits the world.

Spring is the season for sowing. The Hunan Provincial Crop Germplasm Resource Bank, within the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, preserves, inspects and breeds the little-known crop seeds every day. The resource bank is the first comprehensive public service platform for the conservation and utilization of crop germplasm resources in Hunan.

Its total construction area is nearly 700 square meters, of which the low temperature control area covers an area of 350 sq m. There are five warehouses including long, medium and short-term, as well as parental and adjustable repositories. It also has six functional areas: strategic resource protection, basic resource preservation, resource display and exchange, resource information management and resource pre-processing.