Abstract:Rice ridge-furrow cultivation has significant advantages in carbon sequestration, emission reduction, energy saving, and yield increase. Currently, rice ridge-furrow cultivation faces problems such as numerous operation steps, high labor intensity, and low efficiency. To improve the operation efficiency of ridge-furrow cultivation and simplify the operation process, based on meeting agronomic requirements, a dedicated transmission system for rice transplanting was designed and matched with existing ditching and ridging equipment to meet the normal working needs of rice transplanting. Aiming at the stability of transplanting operation, a transplanting depth control profiling system was designed to ensure the quality of transplanting. An integrated machine for rice ditching, ridging, and transplanting was created, which can complete multiple operations such as rotary tillage, ditching, ridging, and transplanting at one time. Targeting the qualification rate of transplanting depth, a discrete element simulation test was conducted on the profiling system to obtain the optimal structural parameters: when the installation height of the profiling board was 199 mm, the width of the profiling board was 463 mm, and the front angle of the profiling board was 20°, the shortest recovery time of the profiling board posture was 0. 697 s, the minimum resistance of soil to the profiling board was 589. 52 N, the minimum soil subsidence was 16. 2 mm, the qualification rate of transplanting depth was 93. 22% , and the profiling performance was good. A prototype was trial-manufactured according to these parameters, and field performance tests and yield comparisons of ditching, ridging, and transplanting for early rice and late rice in two years were carried out for four different operation modes: ordinary rotary tillage + transplanter (W1, control), one-time ditching, ridging, and transplanting operation ( W2), one rotary tillage + ditching, ridging, and transplanting ( W3 ), and two rotary tillages + ditching, ridging, and transplanting (W4). The field operation performance test showed that when the forward speed of the machine was 0. 5 m/ s and the rotary tillage depth was 166 ~ 225 mm, the average soil subsidence was about 17 mm, and the qualification rate of transplanting depth reached 91. 20% ; the yield comparison test of different operation modes showed that the yield increases of early rice were 0. 42% , 4. 00% , and 4. 70% , respectively, and the yield increases of late rice were 1. 05% , 5. 30% , and 6. 10% , respectively. From a comprehensive perspective, the two rotary tillage operations increased the operation cost, but the yield increase was not significant, thus W3 had the best comprehensive benefit.