The production process of rice

The production of rice needs to go through seven processes: soil preparation, seedling raising, transplanting, weeding and pest control, fertilization, irrigation and drainage, and harvest.

The process of rice production

1. Land preparation: this process can be divided into three periods: rough ploughing, fine ploughing and leveling. In the past, animal power and ploughing tools, mainly buffalo, were used to prepare the land, but now machines are used to prepare the land.

2. Raising seedlings: in modern times, special seedling centers use seedling boxes to make rice seedlings grow. Good rice seedlings are the key to the success of rice cultivation. When the seedlings grow about eight centimeters high, they can be planted.

3. Transplanting: the traditional method of transplanting rice seedlings uses a seedling rope, a seedling mark or a transplanting wheel to mark the rice field. When transplanting rice seedlings by hand, a seedling splitter is worn on the thumb of the left hand to help farmers separate the seedlings and insert them into the soil.

4. weeding and pest control: when the seedlings grow, they should be taken care of at all times, and weeds should be pulled out, and sometimes pesticides should be used to get rid of pests (such as Oncomelania hupensis).

5. Fertilization: when the seedling is high and grows the first rice stem, it is called the dividing period, during which fertilizer is often needed to make the rice seedling grow healthily and promote the fullness and quantity of panicle rice in the future.

6. Irrigation and drainage: Rice depends on this procedure. If upland rice is a dry field, the process of irrigation and drainage is different, but it is generally necessary to strengthen water irrigation after transplanting, when young ears are formed, and at heading and flowering stage.

7. Harvest: when the rice ear hangs down, it can be harvested. In the past, it was cut with a sickle and then tied up, and the rice ear was separated by a threshing machine. In modern times, there is a harvester. After the rice ear is involved, the rice ear is directly separated from the rice stem, and a grain of rice ear becomes rice.