On May 14, in Jiayang Village, She Township, Jiayang, farmers from Juyuan Family Farm in Fuding City drove micro-cultivators, sprayed herbicides, and were busy turning the soil, weeding, and topdressing to prepare for upland rice sowing. Not far away, the agricultural mechanic pushes the seeder one by one, shuttling back and forth in the flat land, with the uniform speed operation of the roller under the machine, the upland rice seeds fall homeopathically, and then are embedded in the soil, and soon complete a upland rice machine sowing operation.
Machine sowing of rice seeds
"This year is my first attempt to plant upland rice, ready to plant more than 200 acres, has been planted more than 40 acres, and is expected to be planted in half a month." Li Shengwen, head of Juyuan Family Farm in Fuding City, said, "If this year's harvest is good, we will expand the upland rice planting area next year." ”
Rice
It is understood that upland rice, also known as upland rice, is more drought-tolerant and can adapt to grow in waterless dry land, slope land and arid ecological environment. "In the process of promoting the recultivation and replanting of abandoned farmland, we found that many fields faced problems such as insufficient water sources and difficulties in water diversion." Que Yulin, head of the Fuding City Science and Technology Commissioner's Workstation Station, told reporters that in order to realize the replanting of grain on the cultivated land that lacks water, the Fuding City Agriculture and Rural Bureau tried to plant upland rice on the water-scarce land last year, and the experiment was successful.
Agricultural technicians provide technical guidance on site
On this basis, this year, Fuding City tried to plant upland rice in the mountainous area for the first time, and selected hybrid rice varieties with strong drought resistance, such as Hanyou 73, Hanyou 786, and Hanliangyou 116, and adopted machine sowing, strip sowing, sowing and other sowing methods, and the whole growth period was about 120 days. Compared with traditional rice, upland rice mainly requires natural rainfall during the whole growth period. In the critical period of growth, including tillering stage, booting stage, heading and flowering stage, and grain filling stage, it is necessary to properly replenish water in case of drought, so that rice can grow and develop normally, flowering and fruiting in a relatively moist soil. At the same time, "upland rice direct seeding" is a rice cultivation method in which rice seeds are directly sown into the field, without the need for seedling raising, seedling raising, transplanting and other procedures, and has the characteristics of labor and labor-saving, cost-saving and efficiency-saving.
Sowing rice seeds
Strip sowing rice seeds
In addition to Jiayang, this year Fuding City has also carried out demonstration experiments of upland rice planting in Guanyang, Dieshi, Taimushan and other townships and towns, and the city's upland rice planting area has reached 350 mu. Recently, the Fuding Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has actively demonstrated and promoted the new upland rice planting technology to growers, and at the same time sent agricultural technicians to guide growers to carry out upland rice planting and production with high standards throughout the process, laying a solid foundation for stabilizing grain and increasing efficiency, and boosting the steady development of Fuding's grain industry.
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