Development situation and countermeasures of Guangdong rice industry in 2013

There is a great increase of rice production and yield in Guangdong. The rice planting area slightly raises and the peasantsincome greatly increases. Rice insurance has been experimented and enlarged. The contribution rate of science and technological progress continues improving, and the material input contribution is relatively lower. Scientific research institutes have become new rice varieties innovation backbone. But the Guangdong rice production is seriously influenced by Cadmium Rice Event. Under the new situation, the paper puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions such as continuing to make greater efforts to protect farmersenthusiasm for growing grain, strengthening the industry supervision and control, as soon as possible to establish circulation of classification guidance and differential pricing policy, and continuing to construct the rice insurance system.