由中国农业科学院主持全国近七十名专家学者编纂的《中国稻作学》已由农业出版社公开发行(1986年版,以下简称《稻作学》),全书百万字共十七章,举凡廿多年来我国稻作科研和生产中的重大课题,该书几乎皆有涉猎。建国以来我国首部稻作巨著《中国水稻栽培学》(农业出版社1961年版,以下简称《栽培学》)曾由丁颖教授主编,但旧著出版迄今已逾25年,其间我国稻作理论与实践已有长足的进步和积累,人们期望从更高的视界审查和分析历史文献的欲念每常不能自禁,新版《稻作学》的应运而生,基本上满足了这种冀求。《稻作学》采用的主体文献,多以我国60年代以来的最新资料为主,这构成《稻作学》以新取胜的特点。不仅于此,该书在介绍主题学科的关键内容时,多能适当引用国外文献,这不仅有利于体现科学的继承和发展,引入和创新的关系,而且确能标明我国稻作理论和实践在世界稻作学海中的地位。如我国杂交稻的开发和利用,无论在理论和实践上都占世界领先 The Chinese Rice Research compiled by nearly 70 experts and scholars from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has been publicly issued by Agricultural Publishing House (1986 edition, hereinafter referred to as “Rice Science”), with a total of 17 characters Over the past 20 years, China’s rice research and production of major issues, the book almost all covered. Since the founding of our country, the first rice masterpiece “China Rice Cultivation” (Agricultural Publishing House 1961 edition, hereinafter referred to as “cultivation”) was edited by Professor Ding Ying, but the old one has been published more than 25 years so far, during which China’s rice farming theory and Practice has made considerable progress and accumulation. People hope that the desire to examine and analyze historical documents from a higher perspective will not be banned every now and then, and the new version of “Rice Learning” has basically met this aspiration. The main body of literature used in “rice science” is mostly based on the latest data from the 1960s in our country, which constitutes a new win for “rice science”. Not only this, the book in the introduction of the key subjects of the subject more than the appropriate reference to foreign literature, which not only reflects the succession and development of science, the introduction and innovation, and indeed can indicate the theory and practice of rice in China The status of rice farming in the world. For example, the development and utilization of hybrid rice in China occupy the leading position both in theory and in practice