Warms and insects of breed rice

A happy new yare! Hallo. How are you? It is very cold now in Japan.

I will talk about warm and insects of breed rice today. If you don`t like warm, please don`t read this page.

Rice is contained a lot of nutrition, so many warm and insects breed.

Rice weevil was first discovered in America. Japanese call it “Inemizu-zoumushi.” The rice weevil is brown and the mouth of it is protruded like a straw. That is about 5 mm. 1975, it was found in Aichi, Japan. It not only walk but also fly and swim. It breeds the young rice seedlings, and eats it. The larvae eat the roots. Rice farmers are very troubled because rice does not grow well.

Rice weevil

Leafhoppers come from China to Japan at summer. It carry the disease to rice, then the disease kill off a lot of lice like crop circles. Black spots appear after the rice has been soaked up nutrition. And rice farmers cannot buy it because it looked worse. Japanese call leafhoppers “Unka.”

Stink bugs and Rice stem borers can interfere with growth of rice. It is subject to diseases too. There are three causes mainly.

sick of rice

First, it is due to mold. Blast disease is the main disease. Japanese called “Imochi-byou” to it. This disease is the most troubled farmers. It would spread quickly and kill a lot of rice. “Sheath Blight” is also the disease caused by mold.

Second, it is due to bacteria. “Bacterial leaf blight” is a very frightening disease. The disease spreads from the wound.

Third, it is due to virus. The virus brings insects. A disease that leaves withered stripes is this type.

Illnesses of rice will not go away. Farmers using agricultural chemicals when rice was

sick. This is because it does not worsen the disease. But the old days there did not have agricultural chemicals.

The people of ancient could only play when rice breed insects in Japan. There were not able to harvest much and often suffered from poor harvests.

They had to save water and bake rice paddy to repel insects in the Edo era. Then the people were making the agricultural chemicals from grass insects hate. Besides, people used whale oil, used catchers and filled in the rice paddies. How do they get rid of the insects are various.

Recently, there is also a way to get the little ducks eat the insects. This way is popular because they don`t use agricultural chemicals.

We can do thing that how to keep off insects and disease. We must keep in a dark and airy place with red pepper. And we need clean cases of rice sometime. There are not insects at clean area. Cleaning is necessary in order to eat the delicious rice. I think that rice to store in the refrigerator is best.

Did you find this content for you? I will introduce life of rice tomorrow. See you!

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