The Year-End Approaches

"Shen Nong?"

Hearing the word that had just come out of Yuan Guoliang's mouth,

Xu Yun instinctively wanted to blurt out:

Who came up with that project name? It was so damn perfect.

In the future Xu Yun had come from,

there were many agricultural projects that had made enormous contributions to the country.

For example, Academician Wu Mingzhu's team had led the way in watermelon breeding.

Thanks to that project, by 2023 every person in Huaxia could afford to eat watermelon with ease. The contrast with some of our neighboring countries was striking.

Whether it was the Universiade, the Asian Games, or the Winter Olympics,

the fruit that always disappeared first from the athletes' dining halls was watermelon.

Some Japanese and Korean athletes even secretly took watermelons back to their rooms so they wouldn't look greedy while eating them. In their countries, a seeded watermelon cost the equivalent of a hundred Huaxia currency or even several hundred.

Then there was the hybrid corn represented by Li Denghai, another project with tremendous achievements.

In the history of corn cultivation, only two people had records in the archives for their achievements. One was Wallace, founder of the American Pioneer Seed Company and holder of the world record for spring corn yield.

The other was Li Denghai, who had set the world record for summer corn yield.

But

if people had to choose a project in any field to name "Shen Nong," then 99 percent would cast their vote for hybrid rice.

Because it had put food on our tables.

That simple reason alone was enough to beat everything else.

What made the name even more ingenious to Xu Yun was that there had actually been several generations of "Shen Nong."

The Shen Nong Shi whom most people knew in the broad