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East China’s Jiangsu province is in full swing in its rice transplanting as the summer farming season has entered the crucial stage. Let’s take a close look.

A high-speed rice transplanter was seen working in the field at Zhaoxiang Rice Duck Co-farming Cooperative in Yanling Town, Danyang.

Unlike before, the paddy field soil is covered with a layer of gray paper film after machine transplanting. The head of the cooperative said that a film covering module has been added at the bottom of the modified Rice transplanter. The paper film can keep warm and wet and promote the growth of seedlings.

“This type of film is made of straw and decomposes after about 40 days. After decomposition, it becomes fertilizer”, Lu Herong, Zhaoxiang Rice Duck Co-farming Cooperative, said.

The promotion of large-scale machine transplanting is inseparable from the high-quality seedling cultivation. In 2023, Xiangshui County made every effort to promote the technology of rice bowl seedling raising by integrating seeds, fertilizer and nutrient soil, and processing them into rectangular seedling trays, which is more in line with the agricultural technical requirements of shallow, even and straight transplanting of machine transplanted seedlings so as to be able to promote the early growth and rapid development of rice, and increase effective tillering.

Zhenjiang has succeeded in testing the technology of raising rice seedlings with substrate cotton introduced from Yangzhou University.

The inorganic mineral cotton formed at high temperature can replace traditional soil matrix, effectively solving the problem of difficult soil extraction from nutrient soil, and greatly improving the quality and stability of seedling cultivation.

In the future, Zhenjiang will continue to improve this new seedling cultivation technology and expand the experimental demonstration area.

“You can see that the vitality of the root system is very strong. After transplantation, the slow seedling period is shorter and the live seeds are faster,which has provided a good idea for us to grow strong seedlings in the field”, Zhong Zhiren, Head of Agricultural Technology Promotion Station of Zhenjiang Agricultural and Rural Bureau, said.

In 2023, Jiangsu further expanded the area of rice transplanters and achieved full mechanization of rice and wheat production. Up to now, Jiangsu has completed 90% of the rice transplanting.