SOWING FROM AIR
(Press Assn.-
RUSSIAN EXPERIMENTS IN DISTRIBUTING SEEDS FROM PLANES
— By Telegraph — G vpynglit).
MOSCOW, Monday. Experimental sowing from the air has been practised in various regions. The main disadvantage is a difficulty in the distribution of seeds with requisite evenness, and until this is remedied air sowing is recommended primarily for crops lilce rice and clo- , ver, which require relatively thin seedings. It is calculated in regions subject to drought that there will he a saving of four or five days during the spring planting, which will mean an increase of 15 to 20 per cent. in the harvest yield; while in the case of flax air sowing may open the possibility of gathering two harvests in the same year. It is hoped that 1,000,000 hectares (a hectare is equivalent to 2.47 acres) of Russian fields will be seeded next spring.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 256, 21 June 1932, Page 5
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