Looking across his previous life, almost every capable nation had put effort into agricultural technology. For example, the United States had not only been the world's largest user of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, but genetically modified technology had also accounted for over forty percent of agricultural applications, while animal husbandry had been a disaster zone for the use of every sort of drug.
Therefore, East Africa would naturally consolidate its advantages in agriculture. Beyond mechanization, all kinds of related agricultural technologies were key areas East Africa was currently striving to conquer.
This had made East Africa the world's third agricultural R&D center after Europe and the United States. Moreover, as the world's only powerful tropical nation, East Africa's research priorities in agriculture differed enormously from those of Europe and America.
Take staple foods, for instance. European and American countries would certainly lean toward researching temperate agricultural products such as wheat, while East Africa focused on (sub)tropical crop types such as rice.
Andre said to He Bo and the others, "Before hybrid rice technology fully matures, we only need to do our own work well. In the future, we will certainly open up new growth points for East African agriculture."
"What I value most about African rice variety is its drought resistance. Among the world's major rice-growing countries, East Africa is a region with relatively little rainfall. Although our country has greatly improved its agricultural irrigation conditions through large-scale water conservancy projects, some areas are destined to be beyond the reach of Water Conservancy Construction alone."
"For example, west of Dodoma city, the naturally low rainfall is simply not something human effort can change. If we can use hybridization technology to cultivate relatively drought-resistant rice varieties, we can greatly improve agricultural planting conditions in our arid and semi-arid regions."
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