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Ningbo plans to plant 250,000 mu of early rice

Lu Fangxing, a farmer at the Cailangqiao Village of Jiangshan Town of Yinzhou District was busy planting rice with the planting machine on his 600-mu rice field on April 8. He is just one example of the rice planters in Ningbo to start the early rice planting these days.

It is learned from Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, based on the geographical advantages, Ningbo will endeavor to expand the early rice planting area driven by the preferential policies, proper services and more advanced technologies. Reportedly, this year’s target area of early rice is over 200,000 mu.

In late March, Ningbo assigned the 1.65 million mu (with the output of 670,000 tons of grain) of food production task to the districts and counties. Among others, the planting area of the early rice is more than 200,000 mu and the target is about 250,000 mu. Then the task of food production has been broken down into towns and villages. At present, 165,000 mu of early rice has been planted, and the remaining tasks are being urgently implemented.

As for the policies, the subsidy for scale planting of crops has increased from 100 yuan per mu to 120 per mu. In the following period, Ningbo will continue to improve the production and sales policies for grains, strengthen the policy support and further increase the subsidy standard of the scale planting of early rice. The early rice orders will be dealt with on a 100% basis, and the wheat orders will be dealt with as much as possible, to put the farmers’ mind at ease and solve their worries.

Reportedly, the machine planting area and the direct planting area of early rice will account for 40% and 60% respectively this year. By April 7, the shed membrane breeding work of the machine planted early rice had been completed, and 70% of the cultivation process of direct planting had been completed, and the remaining work will be completed by April 15. The early rice planting work of Yinzhou District started on April 8

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