The losses caused by seasonal floods in the agricultural sector in the Juye county, in the southwest of the Shandong Province, have increased during the last decade. The Juye county is the lowest lying area of a topographical depression zone in the region. Rain water from the nearby other six counties flows into Juye during heavy rains. Juye, while having an average of 500 mm of annual rainfall only, is exposed to high annual and seasonal rainfall variability. It is very important to increase agricultural resilience to natural disasters and floods in particular by introducing practical and advanced agricultural technologies. This practice introduces new and more water logging resistant cotton varieties, and includes a new transplanting technique. In contrast to traditional transplanting, this technique is not only labour-saving, but significantly improves root development, rendering cotton plants more waterlogging and drought resistant.