Zhao Zhihai helps local people plant hybrid foxtail millet in Burkina Faso, on Aug. 18, 2019. (Provided to Xinhua) In 2007, his "Zhang Hybrid Millet" (ZHM) registered a record-high output of 810 kg ...

SHIJIAZHUANG, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- It is now the harvest season of millet in northern China, and Zhao Zhihai, lauded the "father of hybrid foxtail millet" in China, has buried himself in the field.