The Issues and Countermeasures for Safe Production of Rice in China

The major issues on safe production of rice in China were discussed,including meteorological and climatic disasters,decreasing of biodiversity in paddy fields and frequent breakout of pests and diseases of rice,exotic biological invasion,security of transgenic rice and low quality of rice products.A series of countermeasures were put forward for above issues,which involved following aspects:(1) to set up environmental quality detecting and survey system for paddy fields and strengthen ecological restoration and improvement;(2) to establish predicting system for agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation and enhance resistant abilities against the disasters;(3) to forward extension and innovations of ecological rice farming systems;(4) to push development of standardization and industrialization of rice production;(5) to strengthen preservation and utilization of wild rice and excellent genetic resources of rice;(6) to establish a series of encouraging policies and monitoring and management systems for safe production of rice in China.