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Weed management in dry direct-seeded rice: A review on challenges and opportunities for sustainable rice production

Dry direct-seeded rice (DDSR) offers several advantages: rapid planting, easy mechanization, less labor and water requirement, and early maturity with fewer environmental footprints. Despite these recompenses, the major snag with practicing DDSR is the potential biotic threat posed by weeds. The yield losses...

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Compatibility of insecticides with rice resistance to planthoppers as influenced by timing and frequency of applications

Planthopper outbreaks are associated with insecticide use and researchers have looked for alternative methods to manage these pests. Because of the vagaries...

Rice straw-based fodder for ruminants

Rice straw has low nutritional value (low protein content and poor digestibility) compared to grasses, thus it cannot support the nutrients required by...

The role of CGIAR Germplasm Health Units in averting endemic crop diseases: the example of rice blast in Bangladesh

Germplasm Health Units (GHUs) are institutional phytosanitary units of the CGIAR designed to facilitate bioresource transfer for their breeding programs...

Antioxidant, anti-obesity, nutritional, and other beneficial effects of different chili pepper: A review

The chili pepper is an important spice that is also used in therapeutic diets due to the activities of unique components, Bioactive compounds and vitamin...

Integrated pest management: good intentions, hard realities. A review

Integrated Pest Management (IPM)is the model of crop protection that has prevailed since its creation in the late 1950s. IPM has, by virtue of its broad...

Farmers’ participatory evaluation of alternate wetting and drying irrigation method on greenhouse gas emission, water productivity, and paddy yield in Bangladesh

Due to Bangladesh’s frequent water shortages, sufficient water to irrigate rice fields is increasingly scarce. Additionally, due to global warming,...

An assessment of irrigated rice cultivation with different crop establishment practices in Vietnam

Crop establishment, which often receives insufficient attention, is one of the major rice production operations that should be considered when promoting...

Determinants in the adoption of alternate wetting and drying technique for rice production in a gravity surface irrigation system in the Philippines

In Asia, AWD technology is a well-known low-cost water-saving technique for irrigated rice. Despite the potential benefits and significant efforts of creating...

Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from irrigated rice cultivation through improved fertilizer and water management

Annually, Bangladesh consumes about 2.9 million metric tons of urea and about 60% of this is used in rice cultivation. Therefore, this could contribute...

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