Abstract:With the development of water crisis, water-saving cultivation techniques are paid more and more attention in agriculture production. Rice production with soil mulch materials, as a new cropping system to save irrigation water, has been introduced to China since 1980‘s. In order to know if this new technique is suitable in Sichuan basin, a field experiment was carried out to study the growth characteristics and yields of rice mulched by different materials in an alluvial paddy soil. The experiment included ...