The high-yielding new strains are helpful to those people to promote health through diet.

The institute established a scientific cultivation technology process through research on the growth of strains. It settled technical problems arising in processing unpolished black rice and made efficacious health foods.

These foods contain iron, calcium, magnesium and other mineral matters, various vitamins, protein, amino acid, etc.

The processed foods are good for preventing and treating vascular diseases, liver diseases, kidney diseases and beriberi. It is also efficacious for the nutrition care of expectants and nursing mothers and the old and for children's stature.

These strains were appreciated at the 32nd National Sci-tech Festival and the 15th National Invention and New Technology Exhibition.