1996年江苏省金坛市在国内首创成功“旱育湿润稻栽培”新技术。凌启鸿、夏有龙、蔡建中等著名水稻专家考察后认为，“这项国内首创的新技术既解决了苗床培肥难、播前浇底墒水难、拔秧难等问题。又能育好旱秧、还不减少水稻面积、较水稻肥床旱育稀植技术大有进步，值得推广”。? Jintan City, Jiangsu Province in 1996 successfully pioneered in China “dry cultivation of wet rice cultivation,” a new technology. Ling Qixian, Xia Youlong, Cai Jianzhong and other well-known rice experts inspected that: "This domestic pioneering new technology not only solves the problems of seedbed fertility difficult, difficult to water pre-sowing, difficult seedling raising and so on. Seedlings, not to reduce the area of ​​rice, paddy rice cultivation technology rather than paddy great improvement, it is worth promoting. ?