红花在塔城工农兵农场种植已二十多年,是农场的主要食用油料作物。以往栽培的品种,我们称为“新疆红花”,它壳厚、含油少、成熟较晚,单产低,榨油时机器磨损较大。 一九七八年,我场从中国科学院北京植物研究所植物园和中国农业科学院,先后引来国外红花新品种十余个,经过三年试种, Safflower in Tacheng workers and peasants farm planted more than 20 years, is the farm’s main edible oil crops. In the past cultivated varieties, we call “Xinjiang safflower”, its shell thickness, less oil, mature later, low yield, the machine wear and tear when the larger oil. In 1978, from the Botanical Garden of Beijing Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, I attracted more than 10 new varieties of safflower abroad. After three years of trial cultivation,