These days, Hangzhou Jiangdong Farm ushered in a bumper harvest of late-planting rice, looking like a golden ocean. With the roar of the machines, the full rice grains were all packed into the harvester bucket.

Jiangdong Farm has a land area of nearly 642.5 acres and is the farm with the largest grain planting area in Hangzhou Qiantang New Area.This year, all the land of Jiangdong Farm has been used for growing late planting rice.It has started harvesting and is expected to harvest 2,200 tons of rice.

"As long as it is well planted, the late-planting rice willhave a good harvest,"said the person in charge of Jiangdong Farm.The yield of late rice this year is expected to reach 620 kg per mu (0.165 acres), an increase of 4.38% over the same period last year.

The bumper harvest is inseparable from policy support, the improvement of agricultural mechanization, and the promotion and application of high-quality seeds and technologies.

"In particular, in recent years,Qiantang New Area has vigorously carried out scientific and technological demonstration projects such as the establishment of green and high-yield crops, the introduction and demonstration of new varieties of excellent crops, and the demonstration and promotion of new crop technologies, which have boosted crop yields and farmer's incomes," said Shi Zhongyuan, Deputy Chief of Agricultural Development Division in Qiantang New Area Agricultural Development Service Center.

At Jiangdong Farm, for example, transplanting rice seedlings, threshing and harvesting are all mechanized.With a harvester,farmers can finish harvesting rice on 0.16 acres of land in ten minutes. The shredder followed and crushed the straw on the spot to return itto the field.

"All agricultural work, such as rice entering the barn, straw crushing, field plowing, ditching, and ridging, has been done at once," said the person in charge of Jiangdong Farm. "More than 165 acres of land had been harvested in just three days.”

This year, including Jiangdong Farm, the large-scale planting area of late-planting rice in Qiantang New Area has reached 3,706.6 acres, and it is expected to harvest 12,000 tons of grain, with the planting area increasing by 50% compared with last year.