CCTV News: Located on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, 4,000 acres of desert rice have begun sowing. How to grow rice in the desert?
This is a 4,000-acre rice planting base in Yuquan Town, Kunyu City, Xinjiang. Unlike the south where rice is planted in paddy fields, the rice seeds that are grown here are used for dry rice seeding technology. The rice seeds that have been mixed and coated are directly sown into the field and then irrigated without going through irrigation, seedling cultivation, paddy field transplantation and other links. This is the rice drought live streaming machine that is operating. It can complete ditches, sowing, soil covering, etc. at one time, and can sow more than 300 acres of land every day on average. Drought live streaming technology is suitable for planting rice in places with scarce water resources such as desert edges, and has the advantages of saving water, saving labor and efficient. Last year, the rice produced by the local trial planting in this model reached about 500 kilograms per mu.
In addition to dryland sowing technology, it is also important to improve soil quality. In recent years, the local government has effectively improved soil fertility conditions by increasing soil organic matter, trace elements and microbial bacteria fertilizers, solved crop planting problems, expanded grain planting area, and improved land utilization and economic benefits at the edge of desert margins.
