Artificial Pollination of Hybrid Rice

Discover the fascinating process of artificial pollination in hybrid rice farming! Watch as taller rice plants serve as the male pollen carriers, while the shorter female plants mature in the middle. This video walks you through the meticulous 10-day pollination process using ropes and bamboo sticks to ensure high-yield seed production. Learn how the male plants are eventually harvested, with the female plants maturing into seeds for the next crop season. Witness this intricate method that plays a crucial role in sustainable rice production.

[joshuajamessantos]

This is called hybridization. The progeny of that rice plant (female plant) is called F1 seeds.

[Meena-kzqm]

My family's been growing rice for decades. Never saw them doing this

[fredross]

Fascinating. I would never have known this.

[alejandraparker]

Had no idea that's how it works...thanks.

[jolla]

It's true, you do learn something new every day.
Not being from a rice growing region, I didn't know there are male and female plants, I thought the self polinated.

[lynncomel]

This is actually very smart and efficient.❤

[romeobteneza]

It's amazing technology for propagating hybrid rice.

[dinadeasis]

That's how hybrid rice are pollinated.

[anmoldeepsinghchakkal]

It is a cultural method to control leaf folder insect, as these insects do not have legs, they fall in water and die off

[hydrotilling]

I like watching the wind dance across the tall grass and how they wave like at a football game performing the wave. It’s very peaceful to see pollination occurring and knowing that it’s having sex.❤

[jimbongo]

That's what you have to do when insecticides killed all the natural pollinators! Many places all the bees have been killed years ago!!!

[fayebrown]

How much better is this ? I life to know ?

[sivaprasadreddybollam]

In the same way we grow sunflowers 🌻in India where male sunflower plants are grown seperately and female seperately after 45 days of sowing seeds people collect pollen grains from male flowers using mosquito net by tieing it to a jug by scrubbing it on the male flowers every day almost for 1 month and collected pollen grains are applied on female flowers using a rounded cloth for almost 15 to 20 days for every sunflower female plant day by day and after 1 month of Cross Pollination both male and female sunflowers are harvested where FEMALES ARE USED AS SEEDS FOR GROWING NORMAL SUNFLOWERS CROPS and males are used for normal consumption.

[SalManila]

So they don't use self pollinating rice?

[johnlangtiwan]

In some parts of Philippines we call it mr and mrs, ,

[wiseman]

Rice from seeding to harvesting requires much work & water

[noecalmateo-uosu]

...this ricefield, vietnam or Thailand?

[srinija]

In India also we have been doing it for the last 15 years

[salinsal]

That's why they are still around.

[MrDSF-ehcu]

Nah we use wind here the rice is best also