Recently, a reporter witnessed a brand-new rice transplanting method in Wuchang, a major rice-producing county in Heilongjiang Province—film-covered hole transplanting: strips of one-meter-wide agricultural film are arranged 10 centimeters apart, and rice seedlings are neatly inserted into holes pre-punched in the film. Li Yanguo, the owner of the rice field, said this is a brand-new organic rice production method they have explored. After the rice field is covered with film, weeds cannot grow, thereby effectively solving the previous problem of difficult weed control in organic rice production.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11331/
Because no chemical pesticides can be used, and paddy fields cannot be cultivated for intertillage weed control, weed control has always been a technical core issue to be solved in organic rice production. The reporter learned from the Provincial Agricultural Technology Extension Station that at present, organic rice production methods in the province include rice-duck mutualism and rice-field crab culture, which solve the weed problem through ducks and crabs living symbiotically in the rice fields. This method of weed control through film mulching is basically not yet used in production.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11331/
Li Yanguo is the legal representative of the Wuchang Daoxiangxiang Organic Rice Planting Agricultural Professional Cooperative. He told the reporter that from the seedling-raising stage they began making preparations in accordance with the production requirements for organic rice. Through the Internet, they contacted an enterprise specializing in the production of organic fertilizer, Heilongjiang Hongli Bioengineering Co., Ltd., spread biological fertilizer on the seedbed, and at the same time treated the seeds with a biological seed dressing agent. After the rice seedlings emerged, they quickly appeared different—especially strong, with well-developed root systems. “We chose film mulching for weed control because, once this method succeeds, it can be promoted over a large area. Moreover, this new type of biological organic fertilizer also has the effect of preventing rice diseases, so it can prevent disease and increase yield, achieving two goals at once,” Li Yanguo said.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11331/
Li Yanguo had worked for many years as a grain broker. “The purpose of establishing the cooperative is to build our own organic rice brand.” Li Yanguo's idea received an immediate response. As soon as his cooperative began making preparations, 25 households joined, and the rice area under operation expanded to 3,290 mu. In Wuchang, more and more farmers have such ideas. Qin Liming, deputy director of the Municipal Agriculture Committee, told the reporter that driven by leading enterprises, in the past two years Wuchang farmers“ enthusiasm for developing organic rice has been rising day by day. Although organic rice production has high requirements and many particular rules, the strong market demand and relatively high profits still make farmers favor organic rice. In particular, after last year's Wuchang rice incident was exposed, local rice purchase prices slid all the way down, which further aroused farmers” desire to develop green and organic rice to increase added value. At present, the city's rice processing enterprises that have obtained organic certification have grown to 26. In just one year last year, the area of certified organic rice bases increased by 110,000 mu.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11331/
Not only in Wuchang, but also in other major rice-producing areas of the province, the production of organic rice and green food rice is also growing in popularity. The reporter learned from the Provincial Green Food Development Center that in recent years, the area of certified organic rice in Heilongjiang Province has shown a trend of rapid year-by-year growth. In 2007 it was only 32,700 mu; by 2010, this figure had grown to 114,000 mu, and it is expected to exceed 150,000 mu this year. The province's certified organic rice production enterprises have already exceeded 70.文章源自FOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/en/11331/