Prof. Xuân told Việt Nam News readers about his journey to enhance the value of Vietnamese rice varieties. You have spent your whole life researching new rice varieties, creating an agricultural revolution and contributing to stabilising food security. Therefore, I focused on the IR36 rice variety, variety 5404. I asked the IRRI for the 4th-5th generation rice variety so I could breed new rice varieties myself. When we tried combining Yellow Flower Sticky rice with short-term genetic rice varieties, we found it feasible.

Source: Viet Nam News December 25, 2023 13:16 UTC