This year, based on the resource endowment, Yuqing County implemented 4,300 acres of rice and fishery comprehensive planting and breeding yield improvement project, and put 180,000 catties of fish fry. Nowadays, it is the golden period of developing rice and fish farming and promoting "rice-fish symbiosis", Yuqing County has seized the season and actively distributed free fish fry to farmers to help increase their income.
In the Dongbao Group of Guanghui Community, Longjia Town, local villagers brought buckets and other tools to collect fish fry according to the standard of 41.5 catties per mu. On the same day, a total of 60 villagers received 6,270 catties of fish fry, and the comprehensive breeding area of rice and fish could be 150 acres.
"Today, we distributed about 13,000 catties of fish fry in Longjia Town and Goupitan Town at the same time, and in the future, we will distribute all the fish fry in place within a week." Liu Sen, a staff member of the Animal Husbandry and Fishery Station of the Yuqing County Agriculture and Rural Bureau, said.
This year, Longjia Town implemented 1,200 acres of rice and fishery comprehensive planting and breeding yield improvement project. Among them, a county-level demonstration site of more than 400 acres has been built in Guanghui Community, and a demonstration site of 50 acres has been built in each village, attracting more than 500 villagers to participate through the demonstration-driven model. One of them is Yue Lianghua, a villager in Guanghui Community, who developed 8 acres of rice and fish farming in 2022.
"Rice grows well, and it can raise fish, and fish farming also has certain benefits for rice, and pests like rice planthoppers are gone. Last year, when I raised it until October, I sold more than 200 catties, and my relatives and friends also had to eat some. Villager Yue Lianghua said.
This year, when he heard that there was a rice and fishery breeding project, Yue Lianghua immediately decided to breed five acres. Moreover, the infrastructure such as fishing ditches, fish traps, and fences were prepared in advance in strict accordance with the standards, and then 207.5 catties of fish fry were received.
"It should be said that the fry should be raised for two months, and the large ones should be about two catties, and the total should be about three or four hundred catties." Villager Yue Lianghua said.
"In the next step, we will strengthen field management for all implementers, mainly doing three things: first, the water in the field should be appropriately deepened; The second is to prevent enemies, such as white cranes and other enemies, and often go to the fields to patrol; The third is the prevention and control management of rice diseases and insect pests in the field, and fish farming and pest control should be organically combined. Tian Maoyuan, a technician at the Agricultural and Rural Comprehensive Service Center of Longjia Town, Yuqing County, said.
In recent years, based on the resource endowment, Yuqing County has adhered to the "combination of planting and breeding", vigorously promoted the "rice + fish" ecological recycling agricultural production model, continuously improved the comprehensive utilization efficiency of agricultural land, and injected new vitality into rural revitalization.
"After the fish fry are put into the field, we will strengthen technical guidance, help the masses to do a good job in the field management in the later stage, strengthen the anti-escape and anti-fishing facilities, reduce losses, increase the production of adult fish, and help the masses increase their income and get rich." Liu Sen said.
Through "one water and two harvests, one field for two purposes", it can promote the increase of production and efficiency of paddy fields and the income of the masses. According to preliminary estimates, under the condition that rice production is not reduced, the project can produce more than 430,000 catties of rice and fish products, achieve more than 100 catties of finished fish per mu, increase income by 1,500 yuan per mu, and is expected to increase the income of 6.45 million yuan for the people. (All-media reporter Li Ning, correspondent Wang Min)