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DaCun Junior High School (2016 CyberFair Project ID 8106)
Taiwan,
Taiwan (R.O.C.),
Changhua County
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 1. Local Leaders
We estimate 7 student(s) from 12 to 13 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Dacun, located on the island of Changhua County in central Taiwan, is a rich local agricultural products. There is a research institute in the prefecture Taichung District Agricultural Improvement Station, this unit has a Ph.D. in rice cultivation, in his 30 years of life, the eight kinds of rice varieties bred to improve people's food problem, this is Sheu Chih-Sheng.
While humans have been growing rice for thousands of years, but in order to look for higher yields, better quality, special natural flavor or aroma, environmental tolerance stronger, less vulnerable to pests and diseases of rice, has also been trying to cultivate better varieties. To study and learn the spirit of him as a theme, hoping to let everyone know through cyberfair rice breeders dreams and adhere to, as well as knowledge of rice cultivation.
Project Description: Tai-keng 9 is Taiwan most popular good quality rice in the rice market, it has a unique taste, best for sushi rice, and it also has a good durable reservoirs, even the old meters have tenure of good taste for the new meters. Sheu Chih-Sheng, Dr Tai-keng 9 research and development history, program director involved in the longest, because Tai-keng 9 successfully, so that he was elected in 1995, the top ten outstanding young people.
Breeding of new rice variety, the shortest takes 6-8 years. Tai-keng 9, noted for its truly Ph.D Sheu Chih-Sheng, for example, from the 1981 investment in breeding, after 12 years of success.
Breeding new rice varieties, crosses and selections that must pass, a high chance of failure. Our team, fortunate to have Ph.D Sheu Chih-Sheng consent to participation in and access to the entire process of rice breeding and knowledge.