A good grain of rice begins with self-cultivation-- A record of Liang Guilin, chief agronomist of Jiabei Agriculture

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Farming is one of the earliest skills mastered by human beings. farming not only feeds human beings, but also produces culture and edifies character. Seven thousand years ago, the Chinese people mastered the skill of growing rice.

But we know too little about it. Is the best rice the fragrance of Wuchang rice flowers in "China on the tip of the tongue"? How to divide indica rice, japonica rice and glutinous rice, and what kind of rice are we eating?

On the banks of Jingpo Lake, Xiangshui Rice Base, we met Liang Guilin, an agricultural extension researcher, which made us have a deep understanding of "rice", gave us a very cordial feeling about rice oil, and the problem about rice was easily solved.

Dialogue between Life and Life of growing Rice

Liang Guilin, an agricultural extension researcher, has been engaged in agricultural production for 42 years and has experience in managing 1.3 million mu of agricultural production. He is an expert in large-scale production and intensive management of modern agriculture and mechanized agriculture.

"Rice is alive, and growing rice is a dialogue between life and life," says Liang Guilin. When Liang Guilin got up in the morning, he went to the greenhouse and saw a drop of water on each leaf tip, surrounded by the unique aroma of the original species of rice flowers. Yes, the seedlings have the same aroma as steamed rice.

When the seedlings grow to three leaves, they will be planted. In order to reduce the damage to the seedlings, Liang Guilin uses the traditional artificial transplanting.

The leaves of the seedlings can talk, and you can see when they are fertilized and when they are hit by insect pests. This is not learning in the study. We need to see, look at the water, look at the leaves, look at the weather. But also according to the agricultural season, growth, temperature adjustment, just like serving a child, understand the cold and warm of rice, in order to better cultivate her.

When the rice seedlings raised by Liang Guilin are transplanted into the paddy field, there will be no slow seedling stage, because the original species has strong resistance, strong seedlings and good adaptation, and will strive for more growth time than other seedlings, which is very precious to rice in cold regions.

Like local Korean farmers, Liang Guilin works in the fields almost all day. Wearing water shoes and gloves, he carried the seedlings to the paddy field.

Good rice seedlings for half a year, the seedlings cultivated by himself were planted by hand in the field, and the plant distance was controlled at 9 inches. In order to achieve accurate plant spacing, he and his colleagues used the simple equipment in the picture above to pull the wire.

The technology of practice leads to true knowledge. Walked through a lot of places, ate many kinds of rice, about what rice is delicious, Liang Guilin said that it is difficult to adjust, many people to delicious mixed with personal feelings, mixed with more perceptual memories.

Indica rice is grown in the south and japonica rice is grown in the northeast. The indica rice is slender, the steamed rice is loose, the viscosity is poor, and the entrance residue is hard. Japonica rice is short, thick, sticky, palatable, soft, elastic. Northeast rice is one-season rice, japonica rice, only one crop a year, absorb enough nutrients. There are slates at the bottom, the feet are hot, and the rice contains seven amino acids that the human body cannot synthesize.

The field we are looking at is the northeast rice flower fragrant rice, in addition to Wuchang in the northeast, only here can be grown. The variety of Daohuaxiang has high requirements for accumulated temperature, cold in the northeast in the morning, short in high temperature at noon, and fast in the evening. In fact, it is not suitable for the growth of Daohuaxiang, but there are small basin climates in Wuchang and here, coupled with the heat preservation of volcanic rocks. meet the growth conditions of rice flower fragrant rice.

The fragrance of rice flowers here is different from that of Wuchang, and there are differences in taste and nutrition. Xiangshui rice flower fragrant rice contains seven kinds of amino acids that cannot be synthesized by the human body, so the porridge is brighter. After a while, the edge of the bowl will form a rice crust, which can be picked up with chopsticks, and the flavor is slightly lighter than that of Wuchang.

Leave a good grain of rice for your children and grandchildren

Human activities and industrial pollution are rapidly entering our vast land. The food and vegetables we eat are no longer what they used to be. Liang Guilin and they once did an experiment to detect mushrooms produced in a greenhouse 300 meters from the side of the road, which detected pollutants from car exhaust.

Liang Guilin has always insisted on keeping this precious land for the motherland and letting it grow good food. Lenovo Jiabei has four bases of its own: Xiangshui base, the land is a volcanic slate field, and the water source comes from Jingpo Lake; Wuchang base, humic black soil, the water source is Longfengshan Reservoir; Yanbian base, planted in a small mountain basin, the water source is the Hailan River; Xingkai Lake base, cold peat black soil, the water source is Xingkai Lake. Liang Guilin runs among the four bases so that his children and grandchildren can eat the clean rice grown by good mountains and good water.

"there are 13 million mu of black land in the northeast, and there are too few talents who can cultivate the land. Now the local farmers we are looking for for transplanting rice seedlings are all over 45 years old, and the young ones have gone to work in the cities. 10 years later, the method of farming may be lost."