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(231028) -- SHUANGFENG, Oct. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A farmer harvests ratoon rice in a field in Shuangfeng County of Loudi City, central China's Hunan Province, Oct. 28, 2023. To improve the utilization rate of farmland, Shuangfeng County is trying to experiment with a new agricultural model that enables a field to grow rice, ratoon rice and cole in different seasons of the same year. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)

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CHINA-HUNAN-SHUANGFENG-FARMLAND-UTILIZATION (CN)

(231028) -- SHUANGFENG, Oct. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff members measure moisture content of ratoon rice in a field in Shuangfeng County of Loudi City, central China's Hunan Province, Oct. 28, 2023. To improve the utilization rate of farmland, Shuangfeng County is trying to experiment with a new agricultural model that enables a field to grow rice, ratoon rice and cole in different seasons of the same year. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)

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#CHINA-HUNAN-SHUANGFENG-FARMLAND-UTILIZATION (CN)

(231028) -- SHUANGFENG, Oct. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Aug. 10, 2023 shows a farmer harvesting rice in a field in Shuangfeng County of Loudi City, central China's Hunan Province. To improve the utilization rate of farmland, Shuangfeng County is trying to experiment with a new agricultural model that enables a field to grow rice, ratoon rice and cole in different seasons of the same year. (Photo by Li Jianxin/Xinhua)

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CHINA-HUNAN-SHUANGFENG-FARMLAND-UTILIZATION (CN)

(231028) -- SHUANGFENG, Oct. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 28, 2023 shows newly-harvested ratoon rice in Shuangfeng County of Loudi City, central China's Hunan Province. To improve the utilization rate of farmland, Shuangfeng County is trying to experiment with a new agricultural model that enables a field to grow rice, ratoon rice and cole in different seasons of the same year. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)

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#CHINA-HUNAN-SHUANGFENG-FARMLAND-UTILIZATION (CN)

(231028) -- SHUANGFENG, Oct. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Aug. 10, 2023 shows a farmer harvesting rice in a field in Shuangfeng County of Loudi City, central China's Hunan Province. To improve the utilization rate of farmland, Shuangfeng County is trying to experiment with a new agricultural model that enables a field to grow rice, ratoon rice and cole in different seasons of the same year. (Photo by Li Jianxin/Xinhua)

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#CHINA-HUNAN-SHUANGFENG-FARMLAND-UTILIZATION (CN)

(231028) -- SHUANGFENG, Oct. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 10, 2023 shows newly-harvested rice in Shuangfeng County of Loudi City, central China's Hunan Province. To improve the utilization rate of farmland, Shuangfeng County is trying to experiment with a new agricultural model that enables a field to grow rice, ratoon rice and cole in different seasons of the same year. (Photo by Li Jianxin/Xinhua)

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CHINA-HUNAN-SHUANGFENG-FARMLAND-UTILIZATION (CN)

(231028) -- SHUANGFENG, Oct. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A farmer harvests ratoon rice in a field in Shuangfeng County of Loudi City, central China's Hunan Province, Oct. 28, 2023. To improve the utilization rate of farmland, Shuangfeng County is trying to experiment with a new agricultural model that enables a field to grow rice, ratoon rice and cole in different seasons of the same year. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)

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Xinhua Headlines: How China's grassroots tech centers nurture agricultural innovation

(230924) -- WUHAN, Sept. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Wang Weibin (L), the founder of the Xiantao ratoon rice sci-tech station, and Du Chanchan, a PhD candidate at Huazhong Agricultural University, check the growth of ratoon rice in Xiantao City, central China's Hubei Province, Aug. 23, 2023. (Xinhua/Yue Wenwan)

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Xinhua Headlines: How China's grassroots tech centers nurture agricultural innovation

(230924) -- WUHAN, Sept. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 18, 2023 shows ducks raised at the experimental field of a ratoon rice sci-tech station in Xiantao City, central China's Hubei Province. (Photo by Zhang Yu/Xinhua)

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Xinhua Headlines: How China's grassroots tech centers nurture agricultural innovation

(230924) -- WUHAN, Sept. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Sept. 18, 2023 shows a ratoon rice sci-tech station in Xiantao City, central China's Hubei Province. (Photo by Zhang Yu/Xinhua)

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Xinhua Headlines: How China's grassroots tech centers nurture agricultural innovation

(230924) -- WUHAN, Sept. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Du Chanchan (L), a PhD candidate at Huazhong Agricultural University, and her classmate collect gas for testing in an experimental field at a ratoon rice sci-tech station in Xiantao City, central China's Hubei Province, Sept. 18, 2023. (Xinhua/Pan Zhiwei)

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Sci-tech stations in China channel college talents to countryside

STORY: Sci-tech stations in China channel college talents to countryside DATELINE: Sept. 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:01 LOCATION: WUHAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of paddy fields 2. various of Du Chanchan working 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG WEIBIN, Director of Hubei Xiantao Ratoon Rice Sci-tech Station 4. various of the Sci-tech station 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): HUANG JIANLIANG, Professor at Huazhong Agricultural University STORYLINE: Du Chanchan, who had never seen paddy fields or live ducks before she came to pursue her postgraduate study at Huazhong Agricultural University in central China's Hubei Province, is now an expert of rice. In the past five years, the 28-year-old spent over 300 days a year at Hubei Xiantao Ratoon Rice Sci-tech Station, exploring the co-culture system of ratoon rice and ducks, an agricultural technique that can boost crop yield with minimal environmental impact. Her research has been promoted to many places in Xiantao City, helping farmers increase more than 4

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Ratoon cropping to boost grain yield in east China

STORY: Ratoon cropping to boost grain yield in east China DATELINE: Aug. 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:30 LOCATION: NANCHANG, China CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of harvests of ratoon rice STORYLINE: East China's Jiangxi Province has made a breakthrough in the practice of ratoon cropping, as the major grain producer adopts ratoon rice to enhance its grain yield. The yield measurement result released on Sunday indicated the average yield per mu (about 667 square meters) in the early season of the rice ratoon crops reached 905.1 kg, nearing the national standard for super hybrid rice. Ratoon cropping is a rice planting model in which rice crops are able to regrow from the stubble after the first harvest, according to experts. Three plots of land were randomly selected for the test within a demonstration area covering 170 mu in the province's Poyang County, said Wu Wenge, head of the expert panel, adding that additional efforts are underway to cultivate the crop. "Ratoon rice can be harvested twice