美香占2号具有优异的食味品质,是目前唯一连续三届获得全国优质稻品种食味品质鉴评金奖的籼稻品种。先后通过了广东省和云南省品种审定,及江西、广西、海南、湖南、陕西和四川省引种许可。调查数据显示,农户种植美香占2号的经济效益普遍高于其他杂交稻和常规稻品种。为加快美香占2号的推广应用,育种单位联合种子企业和米业企业,构建了从水稻种子生产到稻米加工全产业链协同推广网络,形成了品种推广与品牌创建有机结合的产业化推广新模式,推动了美香占2号在生产上的大规模应用,截止2020年美香占2号推广面积超过140万hm²。

Meixiangzhan 2 is the only indica rice variety that has won the Gold Award for taste quality evaluation of national high-quality rice varieties for three consecutive sessions so far for its outstanding taste quality. It has passed the variety approval of Guangdong and Yunnan Province, and the introduction license of Jiangxi, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Shaanxi and Sichuan Province. The survey data showed that the economic benefits of farmers planting Meixiangzhan 2 were much higher than other rice varieties. In order to speed up the popularization and application of Meixiangzhan 2, the breeding units, together with seed enterprises and rice enterprises, have organized a collaborative promotion network of the whole industrial chain from rice seed production to rice processing. A new industrialization promotion mode of organic combination of variety promotion and commercial brand creation was formed, which promoted the large-scale application of Meixiangzhan 2 in production. The promotion area of Meixiangzhan 2 has exceeded 1.4 million hm² to 2020.