Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops for human food and ranks second in global production behind maize. However, wheat seed enterprises consider it to be of secondary importance since wheat is a self-pollinating crop and farmers often replant seeds from their harvest. While significant progress has been made in developing hybrid wheat varieties in other countries, wheat seed commercialization rates remain low in China, where traditional farmer habits favor replanting saved seed. The Chinese wheat seed market is large but competitive, with room for growth through advanced breeding technologies that increase yield and market share. New entrants should have strong technical capabilities rather than just financial resources to succeed in this field.

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China Wheat seeds needing more
Author: han yuanyuan
Company: QYResearch
Date: 2017/5/02
Wheat is the most important human food grain and ranks second in total production as a
cereal crop behind maize and the third being rice. Thus, the wheat seed is also quite
important.
However, seed enterprises consider “whet seed” to be of secondary importance, since it is a
self-pollinating crop and the grain can be used as seed, farmers tend to replant their own
seed.
The exact place and date of the origin of wheat plant that we recognize today is unknown.
Hexaploid wheat, widely grown today thought to have evolved before 7000 BC in an area
from just south of the Caspian Sea in Northern Iran Eastward into Northern Afghanistan.

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In last ten years significant efforts have been made for commercial exploitation of hybrid
wheat through the use of gametocide and CMS lines. Today France and Italy are at the verge
of commercial release of such wheat hybrids for grain purposes.
Hybridization has been used to achieve step changes for yield in crops such as corn, rice and
canola. Through both collaboration and internal initiatives, Pioneer is exploring a variety of
technology options to develop a process for producing hybrid wheat seed on a commercial
scale. Pioneer has bred wheat varieties in the U.S. for more than 40 years with a goal of
increasing harvestable yield and yield stability. In addition, it has had a plant reproductive
biology program devoted to developing hybrid seed production platforms for 25 years.
Pioneer is combining its strengths in wheat breeding and research, along with its leadership
in technologies for hybrid seed production, to speed the development of hybrid wheat.
China is the world’s largest wheat producer and consumer, and for many years it was the
largest wheat importer too. All kinds of traditional Chinese food made from wheat flour,
such as noodles, dumplings, pastry and steamed.
At present, the acreage of wheat in China is about 24 million hectares and the demand of
wheat seed is about 5.5 billion kilograms, according to the amount of 15 Kg seed per acre
with conservative estimates. Affected by traditional habit, farmers still are willing to use
wheat seed selected and saved from their harvested wheat and the commercialization rate
of wheat seed needs to be improved. With the implementation of the national seed subsidies
in recent years, wheat seed commercialization rate is rising year by year in China.
China Wheat seeds Market Research Report 2016 published by QYR shows as follows:
Currently, there are huge number of enterprises those have wheat seed business, the market
competition is intensive. The breeding technology of wheat seed is not advanced; involved

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enterprises had better pay more attention on the technology of wheat seed breeding to gain
more market share. In last ten years significant efforts have been made for commercial
exploitation of hybrid wheat through the use of gametocide and CMS lines.
Despite the presence of competition problems, due to the demand of wheat is quite
tremendous and is growing, investors are still optimistic about this area; the future will still
have more new investment enter the field.
Although sales of Wheat Seed brought a lot of opportunities, the study group recommends
the new entrants just having money but without technical advantage and downstream
support do not to enter into the Wheat Seed field.
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