Hsinchu city government and peach farm change join hands with farmers to guard the health of rice.

Hsinchu city government and peach farm change join hands with farmers to guard the health of rice.

Hsinchu City-in order to prevent rice blight and insect pests, in 109 years, the Agricultural improvement Farm of the Committee of Agriculture of the Executive Yuan was continuously entrusted to promote the monitoring and investigation program of rice blight and insect pests. Three rice cultivation areas of Zhongbiaoli, Nanaili and Gangnanli in Hsinchu City were selected to monitor and investigate five kinds of rice blight diseases and insect pests, including rice fever, bacterial leaf blight, wild borer, planthopper and water weevil, during the growing period of rice. The first time to grasp the occurrence of rice diseases and insect pests in Hsinchu City, join hands with farmers to prevent the epidemic, in order to reduce crop losses.

Zhang Li-ke, director of production and development in Hsinchu City, said that taking rice fever as an example, according to the national experience in the past, it would occur once in 10 years on average. Therefore, under the principle of "forgiving and defending the enemy from the enemy and being strict," the city government commissioned a professional unit, peach, to change the market. in the pre-monitoring and early warning system, we dare not take it lightly to ensure the quality of rice and stabilize farmers' income.

The production and Development Office of Hsinchu City said that it is now at the stage of transplanting rice seedlings in the first stage, from the beginning of transplanting to grain mature harvest, and surveillance and investigation is conducted during the whole period from March to December, in which rice fever, bacterial leaf blight, planthoppers and water weevil are mainly set up to carry out visual investigation, while the tumor wild borer uses a sex pheromone trap box to monitor the insect density at a fixed point to grasp the current situation of diseases and insect pests in advance in order to respond and control in advance.

The production and Development Office of Hsinchu City said that if affected by weather and poor field management, once epidemic diseases and insect pests occur, they are very likely to cause serious agricultural losses, reminding farmers to plant disease-resistant varieties, sparse sowing, wide planting, and reduction of nitrogen fertilizer, and to grasp the opportunity for prevention and control at any time, so as not to neglect prevention and control because of the prevalence of disease-free diseases and insect pests for many years, so as to provide a high-quality growing environment for rice and jointly guard the health of rice.

▲ Hsinchu city government and peach farm join hands with farmers to guard the health of rice