Feature: Chinese agricultural technology to help boost Pakistan's rice export

Long Chunjiu (L), chief scientist of Longping South Asia Seed Research and Development Ltd, and research manager Wasim Waheed work at a rice field in Lahore of Punjab province in Pakistan, on July 10, 2019. A project was started here in 2014 and has been carried out by Guard Agriculture Research and Services in collaboration with Chinese Yuan Longping High Tech Agriculture Company. In the project, they sow around 15,000 varieties of rice for research purpose whose data was used to select the best five types for the national trial. The project enabled Pakistan to develop the hybrid rice seeds which is the core part in the production. (Xinhua/Jiang Chao)