China Vegetables Seedling Breeding is Facing Three Major Problems

By CnAgri2013-05-03 11:05:27 Print According to the fifth national vegetables scaled vegetables seedling breeding technology information exchange conference, currently, centralized vegetables breeding industry is facing three problems. First, lacking of standardized management and technology, the recipe of seedling breeding media, the depth of sowing, fertilizer supply, and light and temperature adjust technology mainly depends on experiences, and lacks of standard technology protocol. Second, lack of efficient seedling breeding equipment, the practice of seedling breeding media recipe, sowing, irrigation, grafting and transportation is labor intensive and has low level of mechanization. The cost increase in labor directly causes the cost increase of seedling breeding. The scale of seedling breeding is low, which can’t enjoy the high profit of scaled production. In addition, if the weather turns disastrous, the damage is huge.
 
According to the experts from China Agricultural Scientific Institute Vegetables and Flowers Research Lab, it needs to introduce new seedling breeding technology to solve above-mentioned problems. Technology including: the development of new seedling breeding media, application of standardized adjustment technology of water, fertilizer and environment, picking and cultivating rootstock, the development of new grafting technology, the development of high quality, safe and stable pests prevention technology, R&D of accessory equipment of grafting machine and sophisticated  seeder. According to the experts, those technology innovations are the focus area of seeding breeding.

From “China Fruit &Vegetable Market Monthly Report”