Six working procedures of sitting on water and farming are completed to save cost and labor at one time.

During the spring ploughing season, in Mingshui County, Heilongjiang Province, an arid area in the west, it used to take more than a dozen people and two or three tractors to repeatedly enter the land three or four times to complete the technology of drought resistance and seedling protection. After continuous improvement by farmers, only two people and a tractor are needed to complete the six processes from ditching to suppression at one time, and farmers can easily grow grain by sitting on the car without touching the ground.

Since the beginning of this year, there is less effective precipitation in Heilongjiang Province, and the lack of soil moisture in the main corn producing areas is serious. Sitting on water to cultivate land was once an effective sowing way to resist drought and protect seedlings, first opening ditches and then watering, then planting and closing ridges, even if it was dry, it could ensure the emergence of whole seedlings. However, due to the complexity of the process, the need for a lot of labor and high cost, it was once abandoned by some farmers.

Li Qinjiang is a farmer in Yongyue Village, Tongda Town, Mingshui County, Heilongjiang Province. he has been sitting on water and farming for nearly 20 years. "at that time, farming by water was as lively as a meeting. A small four-wheeled trench was opened, three or four people spread fertilizer, and there were carts to pull water, and some people watered and sowed, refurbished and suppressed. "with more than a dozen people and two or three cars, they can grow more than 30 mu of land a day."

The improved sitting water farming is very different from what it used to be. Li Qinjiang stopped the small four wheels and talked about the trick: the trenching plough was welded between the front and rear wheels on the left side of the driver, and the fertilizer pipe, water pipe and seed device were fixed in turn and adjusted through locomotive gears and valves. The person sitting at the back of the car closed the ridge by hand, and the ballast hanging from the car was suppressed, and the six processes of trenching, fertilizing, watering, planting, ridging and suppression were all completed as soon as the car passed.

"two people can grow more than 30 mu of big bracts a day and spend less money." Lao Li did accounts with his fingers. It used to take small four wheels to open ditches, water, close ridges, and suppress every step. Now, once completed, the machinery cost will be saved by 50 or 60 yuan. Ten people who use less work go out to work, and one person can earn more than NT $100 a day. "although the conversion costs more than NT $1000, it can be used for six or seven years, and it's worth it!"