ACB News, April 16th , the "third revolution of agriculture" mulching film planting technology gave farmers a lot of short-term gains, but the residual film is gradually eroding living soil environment we rely on. On Friday, Beijing Richlink Fund, a global asset management professional organization with asset management, wealth management, and investment banking, said that it has entered into a partnership with OneCrop, an Australian company that operates and develops biodegradable plastic film. As the corporate consultant and the lead underwriter, Richlink Fund jointly recommend a new generation of environmentally friendly new-generation biodegradable plastic film solutions to solve the “white pollution” problem that has been plaguing the world for a long time.

The rapid spread of plastic film

The use of mulch can bring immediate benefits to crops such as increasing soil temperature, maintaining soil moisture, maintaining soil structure, preventing pests from attacking crops, and diseases caused by certain microorganisms. After the 1980s, Xinjiang began to promote the use of plastic film covering technology in cotton cultivation.

In recent years, the mulching area in Xinjiang has reached 57.35 million mu, and the annual consumption is 280,000 tons. It has become the largest area in China with plastic film, the largest amount of plastic film, and the highest penetration rate. The great role played by the mulching technology of mulching film in the increase of agricultural production is obvious to all. China's mulching covers an area of about 300 million mu, and the annual usage exceeds 1.2 million tons, ranking first in the world.

However, with the increasing coverage of plastic film, its negative impact on the environment is gradually emerging.

Development pain - environmental hazards

After years of development, farmers and the whole society are gradually aware of the environmental damage caused by residual plastic film, especially the long-term impact on the soil.

It is understood that difficult-to-decompose residual film debris will change or cut off the continuity of soil porosity, reduce the decline in soil moisture, weaken the ability of the arable land to resist drought, affect the soil microbial activity and the formation of normal soil structure, and ultimately reduce the level of soil fertility, affecting the roots of crops growth and development ,lead to a reduction in crop production.

In the long run, the use of plastic film does more harm than good.