A STUDY ON THE POSSIBILLITY OF MINIMUM TILLAGE WITH DIRECT SEEDING IN RICE PRODUCTION IN MAURITUIS

In order to raise the economic return and the competitiveness of rice cultivation in agriculture in Mourituis, a minimum tillage experiment of rice by direct seeding method -was carried out in this country for four crops. The results ahowed that when adequate package of techniques were established according to the local conditions, it had advantages of simplifiing production procedure, reducing labour and other costs of rice production and keeping the yields of rice at the same level of conventional tillage method with transplanting, or even higher.