The methane emission flux was determined in paddy field of early and late rice under translating and direct sowing patterns, respectively, using the static box sampling technique in 2005 and 2006. The results analyzed on difference between the direct sowing rice (DSR) and the translating rice (TR) patterns were shown that, the methane emission under DSR and TR presented the same daily variation and seasonal law. The methane flux under DSR was significantly lower but the amount of methane emission under DSR was significantly greater than tha...