The reporter recently learned from the State Forestry and Grassland Administration that the forestry and grassland department will take strengthening the selection and breeding of excellent local grass seeds and improving the production and supply capacity of grass seeds as its main goal, and strive to solve the "bottleneck" problem of grass seeds, and strive to achieve a domestic self-sufficiency rate of grass seeds and forage seeds by 2030.
Statistics show that as of the end of 2024, my country has built nearly 600,000 mu of grass breeding bases, with an annual output of nearly 25,000 tons of excellent local grass seeds, which has strongly supported the grass seed demand for key ecological projects such as the "Three Norths".
"At present, my country's grass seed industry is in its infancy, and the dependence of various grass species on the outside is still high, especially the supply of excellent local grass seeds urgently needed for ecological restoration is still insufficient." Zhao Bing, a second-level inspector of the State-owned Forest Farm and Seedling Management Department of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, said that in the next step, the forestry and grass department will increase the protection and utilization of grass germplasm resources, carry out the collection, preservation and identification and evaluation of important local grass species germplasm resources, excavate a batch of excellent germplasm, and provide resource guarantees for the selection and breeding of excellent grass varieties. At the same time, strengthen the research and development of core breeding technologies, establish cooperation platforms such as grass seed industry innovation alliances, and accelerate the transformation and implementation of excellent grass varieties. (Reporter Huang Yao)
