我国的蓖麻由印度传入,至今已有1400多年历史,可提起蓖麻,仍然有很多人感到陌生。其实,蓖麻籽可以榨油,茎秆可以制麻、造纸,根茎籽皆可入药,蓖麻用途广泛,已在很多领域融入了我们的生活。近日,笔者来到山东省淄博市农科院80亩试验田,听院长王光明讲述蓖麻这种小作物的大能量,以及他呼吁要从战略的高度重视蓖麻产业的缘由。30年积累育出10个“淄蓖麻”杂交种上世纪80年代中后期,我国蓖麻种植面积和产量一度跃居世界第一位,各地蓖麻育种也风生水起。在这样的大 Castor imported from China, has more than 1,400 years of history, can be raised castor, there are still many people feel unfamiliar. In fact, castor beans can be squeezed oil, stems can be made of hemp, paper, rhizome seed medicine can be used, castor has a wide range of uses, has been incorporated in many areas of our lives. Recently, I came to Zibo City, Shandong Province Academy of Agricultural Sciences 80 acres of experimental field, listen to Wang Guangming castor small crops about the great energy, and he called for strategic importance from the castor industry reasons. Over the past 30 years, 10 “Zi Bi” hybrids have been raised. In the mid-to-late 1980s, China’s castor planting area and output once ranked the first in the world. Castor breeding has also flourished throughout the country. In such a big