"Dry Direct Seeding Cultivation using Plowing and Compaction" developed by NARO is adopted mainly in the Pacific side of Japan as a labor-saving and low-cost paddy rice cultivation technology that responds to the rapid expansion of management scale, such as the accumulation of paddy fields in large-scale farming corporations due to the aging of farmers and lack of successors. As compared to conventional cultivation, omission of puddling is one of the characteristics in this technology. Therefore, it is suitable to grow upland crops and forage crops as subsequent crops, and so various paddy utilizations such as paddy crop rotation and farming and livestock cooperation are expected. "Technology Application Research Team" aims to expand its use in the Hokuriku region by adapting the technology to the snowy areas along the Sea of Japan with characteristics of wet weather and soil.
