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china news service, changsha, september 5th, title: why is chinese hybrid rice printed on the banknotes of african countries?

——interview with yao zhenqiu, deputy general manager of yuanshi seeds

china news service reporter bai zu and fu yu

in 2018, the "eight major actions" of china-africa cooperation proposed that china supports africa in basically achieving food security by 2030. thanks to the efforts of batches of chinese agricultural experts in africa, more than 20 african countries have planted hybrid rice. to remember the outstanding contributions of chinese experts and hybrid rice, the african island nation of madagascar printed the chinese hybrid rice pattern on the 20,000 ariary banknote with the largest face value.

yuanshi seed industry high-tech co., ltd., located in hunan, the birthplace of hybrid rice, has carried out hybrid rice business cooperation with many countries around the world. in africa, they have expanded to nigeria, angola, guinea, kenya and other countries with madagascar as the center, forming a full hybrid rice industry chain, and are a representative enterprise for hybrid rice business cooperation between china and africa. china news service "east-west question" recently interviewed the company's deputy general manager yao zhenqiu to tell the story of hybrid rice entering africa.

the following is a summary of the interview transcript: