PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out partial modification and addition of a process in a dry type direct-planting rice cropping by a conventional natural farming method and make rice cropping smooth by temporarily keeping rice field in flooding state after rice reaping and sowing seeds of Astragalus sinicus L. SOLUTION: After rice is reaped, water is temporarily put in a rice field again and the rice field is cultivated by a tractor, etc. and land grading is carried out to form the rice field in rice nursery state and seeds of Astragalus sinicus L. are sprayed into the rice field by a power sprayer, etc. Hill drop planting of unhulled rice seeds is carried out in the Astragalus sinicus L. grown in the rice field from the end of April in next year to the beginning of May. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
