稻田能用机器耕作吗?这是广大群众非常关心的问题,也是将来我国农业机械化过程中一个重要的科学问题。无论在理论上或者在事实上,现在就可以回答:稻田是能够用机器耕作的。我们知道,用机器耕作是包括水稻在内的农业生产的发展方向。苏联和一般人民民主国家的绝大多数稻田,就是用机器耕作的,从耕地、播种一直到收割、脱粒,都广泛地使用了机器。我国也有一些种植水稻的国营农场和集体农庄,早就使用了拖拉机和其他农业机器。“那末,”一定有人要问,“稻田里净是水,土壤又烂又陷,人走下去都要陷下好深,机器既笨又重,下去以後,不会深深地陷在泥土里吗?” Can paddy fields be cultivated by machines? This is a matter of great concern to the general public and an important scientific issue in the future of China’s agricultural mechanization. In theory or in fact, it is now possible to answer: Rice fields can be cultivated by machines. We know that machine farming is the development direction of agricultural production including rice. The vast majority of rice fields in the Soviet Union and the general people’s democracies are machine-cultivated, and machines are used extensively, from farmland to sowing to harvesting and threshing. There are also some state farms and collective farms that grow rice in China. Tractors and other agricultural machines have long been used. “Then,” someone must ask. “The net in the paddy field is water, and the soil is rotten and sinking. When people go down, they have to sink deeper and deeper. The machine is stupid and heavy. After it goes down, it will not sink deeply into the earth. ?”