Which countries prohibit the cultivation of rice?

European and American experts and scholars want to "ban" or let China reduce the rice planting area on the grounds of promoting carbon emission reduction. That's ridiculous! ! !

Regarding the ban on rice cultivation, Iraq has previously announced the ban on rice cultivation. That's because of lack of water. Because Iraq is located in the Middle East, desertification is serious and the weather is hot. People grow rice and other crops that consume a lot of water, which has seriously threatened people's daily water safety. The Iraqi government was forced to decide to ban rice cultivation.

The geographical position of European and American countries is generally in the middle latitude or high latitude zone, where rice can not survive. Europeans and Americans have long regarded wheat as their staple food. At present, the staple food of about 2 billion people in the world is corn. Most of these people are Americans. Americans take it as their staple food, just as China eats rice and Europeans eat wheat. This food culture has been deeply rooted in the local people's ideas.

Westerners believe that the rice eaten by China people is a very influential factor of climate warming, and rice planting emits a lot of methane, which has a great impact on the world. ? Although rice is a crop that directly produces methane, methane production is also closely related to the oxidation process of methane. There is a microorganism that can oxidize methane in rice fields. When oxygen is sufficient, it will convert methane produced by rice planting into carbon dioxide, thus reducing the concentration of methane in the soil.

China is a country with rich experience in rice planting, and has cultivated new rice varieties, which can not only achieve high yield, but also achieve low methane emission. Moreover, through planting technology, the oxygen composition of rice fields can be effectively improved, so that methane can be more fully oxidized in the soil.

A large number of practices have proved that although the yield of high-yield rice has increased, it can also transport more oxygen from the air to the soil, so that the oxidation of methane in the soil can continue, thus reducing emissions.

? ? Methane emissions are not just the cause of rice. Methane is also contained in the gas emitted by some ruminants such as cattle, sheep and horses in aquaculture. Because the scale and quantity of aquaculture are relatively large, the amount of methane produced is also relatively large.

? ? The problem of methane emission reduction should not be allowed to affect food security. As a representative food crop in East Asia and Southeast Asia, rice has nurtured the whole earth and nearly13 of the population. As a big country with a population of 654.38+0.4 billion, the production and supply of grain is very important, and rice, as one of the staple grains, occupies a large proportion in the whole grain supply chain, so it is directly related to our survival and security.