China is famous all over the world for making new records. Now China has done a new miracle of producing paddy in space. China has named the paddy grown in space as space rice. China has brought its first crop to the earth in the form of seeds. In fact, China had also sent paddy seeds to space with its Chandrayaan in number last year. Now 1500 paddy seeds have come to earth through spacecraft. Their weight is 40 grams. These will be sown on the South China Agricultural University campus.
Let us tell you that in space these seeds were exposed to cosmic radiation and zero gravity and then they were brought back to earth. They weigh about 40 grams and their length is now about 1 centimeter. According to Guo Tao, deputy director of the Space Breeding Research Center of the South China Agricultural University in Guangdong, the best seeds will be prepared in laboratories and then they will be planted in the fields.
Significantly, after staying in the space environment for some time, many changes occur in the seed and then bringing them back from there gives more yield than sowing it on the earth. Such experiments are done not only with paddy but also with other crops. China has been taking the seeds of rice and other crops into space since 1987.
According to a Bloomberg report, China has done such experiments with more than 200 crops so far. These crops range from cotton to tomatoes. According to Chinese media reports, in the year 2018, seeds from space were used for cultivation in more than 2.4 million hectares in China. At the same time, Chinese social media users are also calling space rice the rice of heaven. China also plans to set up a research station on the Moon.