The invention discloses a method for breeding a silage upland rice variety and belongs to the technical field of breeding of special rice.A high-yield forage rice variety is used as a basic parent, brittle-culm rice variety with straw useful as forage, grain-stalk dual-use rice variety and high-yield upland rice variety are used as common parents, and the upland rice variety that is suitable for dry farming cultivation and high in yield and nutrition with brittle culms and grain useful as forage and culms useful as silage can be bred through scientific hybrid matching and target character screening.The method is scientific and efficient, is easy to perform and is significant to breeding of forage upland rice varieties.