大麦是我省冬季主要谷类作物之一。发展大麦生产,对于发展畜牧业,尤其是发展啤洒工业,是十分必要的。据统计,全省大麦每亩产量四十年代末(1949年)为80斤,五十年代为129斤,六十年代为179斤,七十年代为245斤,八十年代前半期约365斤。从1978年起,我省大麦平均亩产年年超过300斤,1979年曾达387斤。大麦产量的不断提高,是与选育和推广良种分不开的。其中最明显地是从七十年代中期以来,二棱大麦良种早 Barley is one of the main winter cereal crops in our province. The development of barley production is very necessary for the development of animal husbandry, especially for the beer sprinkling industry. According to statistics, the output of barley in the whole province in the late 1940s (1949) was 80kg, that in the 1950s was 129kg, that in the 1960s was 179kg, that in the 1970s was 245kg, that in the first half of the 1980s was about 365kg . Since 1978, the average yield of barley in our province has exceeded 300 kg per annum and reached 377 kg in 1979. The continuous improvement of barley production is inseparable from the breeding and popularization of improved varieties. The most obvious is that since the mid-1970s, two-rowed barley varieties have been early