What is Simiaomi?

Simiao is an excellent rice variety in Zengcheng. Silk seedling rice is slender, with no abdomen, white heart and crystal clear. Simiao rice is moderately soft and hard, fragrant and delicious, and is known as "Jasper in Rice" and "Best in Rice". The traditional variety of old silk seedlings is Baishui short-legged silk seedlings in Zhucun of this city, and the high-legged silk seedlings in Paitan Lingshan and Zhengguo Shuikou Village are top grades.

In 2005, the local standard of Guangdong Province, Zengcheng Simiao Rice, stipulated that the sensory index of Zengcheng Simiao Rice is crystal-clear and white in color, and the smell has the natural fragrance inherent in Zengcheng Simiao in this area.

The physical and chemical indexes of Zengcheng Simiao rice are: the length-width ratio of rice grains is ≥ 2: 8, the length is 5.4 ~ 6.6 mm, the 1000-grain weight is ≤ 12.59, the gel consistency is ≥ 50.0 mm, the amylose 17.0-25.0%, and the chalky grain rate is ≤10. This is the legal standard of Zengcheng silk seedling rice at this stage. What meets this standard is Zengcheng Simiao Rice, otherwise it can't be called Zengcheng Simiao Rice.

Extended data

Zengcheng Temple has a history of more than 200 years. In the Qing Dynasty, Zengcheng County Records (1820) recorded the silk seedlings in Zengcheng: "Recently, there is a red early maturity, silk seedlings, white rice seeds are quite good, and late maturity has spring water, and silk seedlings are the best." It can be seen that "Silk Miao" was the best rice variety at that time. Authentic silk seedlings were made late, commonly known as silk seedlings or high-legged silk seedlings, and called Zengcheng silk seedlings. It belongs to a farm variety and is a high-quality variety in late season.

Zengcheng High Quality Rice Breeding Base is located in Lichengtang Village, Zengfa Highway, and was established in 1995. It is a special agricultural base for cultivating new varieties of silk seedlings. At present, the base has collected and preserved 680 representative rice varieties at home and abroad, including wild rice with a long history and an agricultural base dedicated to cultivating and breeding new varieties of silk seedlings.

200 1 Zengcheng simiaomi, a green brand, won the A-class product certificate of green food. In 2002, Gualv brand Zengcheng Simiaomi and Taiji brand Zengcheng Simiaomi were respectively rated as famous brand products in Guangzhou. In 2003, Zengcheng Simiao Rice was awarded as a famous brand product in Guangdong Province.

In 2007, the planting area of four-seedling rice in Zengcheng was more than 32,000 hectares, and the output of high-quality four-seedling rice in Zengcheng was 65.438+0.8 million tons, with an output value of nearly 400 million yuan, which became one of the top products in Zengcheng and played a great role in developing local economy.

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