Jingzhou isrich in agricultural resources and is known as the “Land of fish and rice and “China’sgranary.” It is a major national-level agricultural products producing area. Inrecent years, based on local resource advantages, Jingzhou authorities havecontinuously adjusted its planting structure, extended the industrial chain ofagricultural products, increased the added value of agricultural products, andexplored a new way of developing high-quality ecological and green modernagriculture.
In the morethan one thousand mu of retooning rice base, which is the “Integration andDemonstration of Light and Mechanized Cultivation Techniques of Retooning Rice inJianghan Plain” in Maolaoyuan Village, Hongcheng Township, Jianli County, huskedrice is being restored in the warehouse with the harvesters growling. Severalexperts from Huazhong Agricultural University and Bi Lixia, who is in charge ofthe base, have a high expectation toward the experimental field.
Rice is China’stop-one subsistence crop. In the context of the supply-side structural reform,how to achieve high yields and high efficiency? Bi Lixia has bravely tried toplant retooning rice, which means that farmers are able to harvest twice by plantingthe crops once. After the first harvest, farmers can use the remaining rice rootsand the growing shoot apices to allow the plants to recover and produce a freshcrop in the next season.
Hubei is alarge province for the cultivation of retooning rice, with the level ofscientific research and industrialization at the forefront of the country,while Jingzhou and several other regions are the best places of Hubei forplanting retooning rice thanks to their proper geographical environment.
The developmentof green retooning rice industry has brought new hope for farmers, created newguarantees for national food security, and provided new choices for consumers. BiLixia is full of confidence in the promising prospects of retooning rice. The planfor further development has taken shape, which will lead the continuousdevelopment of the retooning rice industry.
Jingzhou is thecore of the country’s advantageous agricultural resources. It has 7 national-levelgrain production counties and 5 provincial-level aquatic product counties. Theoutput of rapeseed and freshwater products has maintained the number one amongcities in the country for many years, and the crop-planting area has kept at 8million mu. In addition to rice, in the town of Chengji, Jianli County, theGolden Straw Hat Cooperative is also continuously promoting the green ecosystemcovering the entire rapeseed industry chain. The newly developed product function-oriented7D processing technology equipment for rapeseed oil will build a “planting,processing, and breeding” circular ecological agriculture and the approach of multi-levelutilization of resources, create a green industrial chain from the rape in thefield to the rape on the tip of tongue, and provide strong scientific andtechnological support for the integrated development of rapeseed in fields of agriculture,industry and service, and the supply of high-quality edible oil.
Located in thehinterland of the Jianghan Plain, Jingzhou has fertile soil which is known asthe “black land” of southern China. In the future, by adhering to the greenproduction and market orientation, building an entire industry chain, and enhancingthe entire value chain, Jingzhou will obtain an even higher reputation for itshigh-quality agricultural products.