Recently, the peasant households in Zhangyan Town have been intensively carrying out the work of raising rice seedlings in full swing, laying a good foundation for this year's rice production.
The reporter came to the Zhangyan Town Agricultural Machinery Service Center to see that the workers are working at full speed to raise rice seedlings, we put the seedling tray, seedling substrate and rice seeds in the automatic assembly line seedling machine, after laying the substrate, sowing the tray, watering, covering the nutrient soil and other processes, soon a tray of rice machine transplanting trays was produced.
Chen Yaoxiang, head of Shanghai Zheyan Rice Planting Cooperative
The finished seedling tray will be placed indoors for insulation and germination, about three or four days, the buds will come out, and then pulled to the seedling field to irrigate and cover the non-woven fabric. Irrigation and drainage are carried out every other day, and no irrigation is carried out on rainy days.
Chen Yaoxiang, who has 12 years of experience in raising seedlings, told reporters that such seedling raising work is carried out every six days until the end of this month. This year, the rice planting area of Zhangyan Town is about 11,000 mu, and about 40,000 kilograms of rice seeds have all been distributed in place.
Wang Yan, a staff member of Zhangyan Town Agricultural Machinery Service Center
This year, the rice planted in Zhangyan Town is mainly hybrid rice, with an area of more than 4,500 acres, and the area of high-quality rice Nangan 46 is more than 3,000 acres, and the rest are mainly planted with conventional rice Xiushui series. At present, there are 4 seedling cooperatives in the town, which can cover about 11,000 acres of rice planting area, and the first batch of seedling raising work is being carried out simultaneously at 4 points, and rice seedlings can be planted in the field in early June.
Reporter丨Xiang Zhuyan, Wang Peiyong, Correspondent丨Gao Ling, Editor| Yu Lanting is responsible for editing | Yu Lanting