Participating in 726 international rice festivals in 8 countries, “Wuchang Rice” exclusively “Champion Japonica Rice” for the first time | Japan | Heilongjiang

Original title: Participate in the “Wuchang Rice” in the 726 International Rice Festivals in 8 countries to monopolize the “Champion Rice” for the first time

Photo of the tasting scene by Lu Pin

Chinanews.com, Harbin, October 17 (Reporter Wang Nina Jiang Hui) On October 17, the results of the evaluation and tasting activities of the third Heilongjiang International Rice Festival in China, out of the top 8 producing countries of China, were announced. rice in the world, including Thailand, Japan and China. Out of 726 rice samples participated in the tasting. In the third “Rice Festival”, “Wuyoudao No. 4” from Wuchang City, China, surpassed Japan’s Koshihikari rice for the first time this year and monopolized the gold medal in the Japanese rice category.

Heilongjiang is the largest production base for high-quality Japonica rice in China, and it is also the first province in China to carry out rice evaluation and tasting. The evaluation and tasting activities of the 3rd China Heilongjiang International Rice Festival were held in Harbin from 6 to 17. The evaluation and tasting activities of rice are one of the important activities in the “Rice Festival”.

The staff is cooking rice according to Lu Pin’s standard photo

Participating samples for this rice tasting activity are open for international public request. As of 17:00 on October 5, the organizing committee has received a total of 726 valid samples from various countries, including 135 foreign samples from Thailand and Japan. , Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Russia, Pakistan and 7 other major rice producing countries in the world.

Unlike the previous two rice festivals where japonica rice and indica rice were tasted together, this year, the japonica rice group and the indica rice group were first created at the tasting event. Tasting activities are carried out using a combination of instrument testing and expert evaluation. In the instrument testing process, molecular labeling technology is used to identify specific nucleotide fragments in rice DNA for authenticity testing and purity testing, which has the characteristics of high efficiency and precision; In the expert evaluation process, 42 rice experts from the world, The formation of a rice evaluation review and evaluation committee was completed, among which the research experts also expanded the indica rice experts. There are 21 japonica rice experts and 21 indica rice experts in total.

The judges are tasting rice photo by Lu Pin

This year, within the framework of the awards, the tasting activity also increased the number of awards. The japonica rice group and the indica group won 3 gold, 6 silver and 9 bronze respectively, plus the “ten delicious rices” from japonica and indica, and a total of 56 awards. After several rounds of tasting, the gold award of the “Rice Festival” rice evaluation activity was “Wuyoudao No. 4” in Wuchang City, China, which won the Japan rice category, while the Japanese Koshihikari, who won the gold award last year, won the Japonica rice category this year. Silver award. In the indica rice group, “Huazheyou 261”, “Yuzhenxiang” and “Wanxiangyou 111” from Zhejiang Province won the gold medal.

“From the perspective of the three rice festivals, the overall quality of our rice has improved significantly. From the rice samples we participated in this time, we can see that the appearance, shape and taste have improved a lot. It must be said : We are close to the top-level rice in the world’s high-quality rice improvement, “said Xie Huaan, a Chinese rice expert and academic at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (Finish)