YIYANG, Hunan, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Modern agricultural machinery is given full play in harvesting early-season rice in Yiyang City of central China's Hunan Province.
This year, Hunan Province arranged subsidies to carry out machine transplanting in 75 counties and support the construction of agricultural machinery cooperatives, with the total expenditure reaching 120 million yuan (about 18 million U.S. dollars).
The planting area of early rice in Hunan reached 1.21 million hectares this year.