Variety of rice capable of yielding 12,000 kilos?

I recently read in the Lanka enews a report wherein Deputy Minister Namal Karunaratne had said that researchers have found a variety of rice capable of yielding 12,000 kilos per ha. Lo and behold this is in Sri Lanka and not in Disneyland!

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If true this is almost a threefold increase over the current national average yield. Such yields perhaps are possible in small controlled plots under optimum conditions. Under field conditions on commercial scale in farmers’ lands with many variables like soil, management skills, available sunshine hours and other inp