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Planting of early-season rice completed

Category: Ningbo District
Published: Wednesday, 09 May 2018 11:05

The planting of the early-seasoned rice of this year has completed, said the Planting Center of Ningbo Bureau of Agriculture. Despite the large-scale decrease of the minimum purchasing price for rice nationwide, the planting area of the early-seasoned rice this year stood at 168,000 mu, almost the same as that of last year.

The planters are less motivated as the national minimum purchasing price for the early-seasoned rice this year has decreased by 0.2 yuan per kilogram. To address the problem, Ningbo has taken such measures as adjusting the planting structure, attracting more orders and increasing government subsidies.

As is reported, with the output and maturity period taken into account, Ningbo has adopted the three varieties, namely, Ningbo Rice No.15, Mid-early Rice No.39 and Ningbo Rice No.69, with the respective planting areas of 49%, 40% and 10%. The Ningbo Rice No.15, with its early maturity period and high seed setting rate, has become popular among the big planters in recent years. Meanwhile, to ensure the profit against the decreasing purchasing price, many planters have adopted the direct planting model featuring less cost and higher yield. This year, the direct planting area reached 88,000 mu, accounting for 52.4% of the total planting area, an obvious increase over that of the previous year