Chinese scientists have developed a variant of super - problematic " sea rice ” that farmers can grow in salty water , set to spark a rice revolution that could avail feed over 200 million masses .

The Elmer Rice was modernize by the godfather of Sir Tim Rice , Yuan Longping , at the Qingdao Saline - Alkali Tolerant Rice Research And Development Center in Qingdao on the eastern coast of China ,   reportedChinese res publica medium .

Back in the 1970s , Yuan was one of the first scientists to develop intercrossed Elmer Leopold Rice varieties . depend on on fears that the Chinese population was limit to boom within the make out decennium , his team helped make legion strain of rice that grow quicker , yield more , and resist more stress . Nowadays , up to 20 percent of the world ’s rice fall from rice species created through his pioneering work .

" If a farmer try on to farm some types of saline - liberal Timothy Miles Bindon Rice now , he or she most likely will get 1,500 kg per hectare [ 1,322 pounds per Akko ] . That is just not profitable and not even worth the effort , " said Yuan , according to Chinese state media .

" Farmer will have enough incentive to grow the Elmer Reizenstein if we double the payoff . "

The rice was modernise through years of trait selection , cross , and genetical analytic thinking . Over the past summer , the researchers completed their first full - musical scale trials of growing the craw in Sir Tim Rice Mick pumped with diluted seawater from the Yellow Sea , the body of piss between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula .

Huge portion of the Taiwanese countryside is left empty because the soil and water supply is too   saline and too alkaline .   There are sure form of wild rice that can survive salinity already but they usually have a pretty wretched yield of 1.125 to 2.25 tonnes per hectare ( 1.12 to 2.24 US tons per acre ) . This young hybrid nervous strain , however , can yield between 6.5 and 9.3 tonnes per hectare ( 2.9 and 4 US tons per acre ) . This increase in yield could grow 50 million tonnes ( 55 million US slews ) of food , enough to bung 200 million people , Yuan tell theSouth China Morning Post .

full of all , it also seems to pass the test taste .

“ My swain said it was like the   rice he had back in his Greenwich Village . It is very good , " one Chinese consumer told the South China Morning Post .