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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 to increasing atmospheric pollution due to increased CH4 and N2O emissions. Increasing nitrogen-use efficiency by adopting urea deep placement (UDP) could...

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Rice domestication

This Primer describes the history of rice domestication, the importance of wild relatives of rice for crop improvement, and the domestication of wild species...

Assessing the potential of a Trichoderma‑based compost activator to hasten the decomposition of incorporated rice straw

Rice straw incorporation can solve environmental pollution caused by straw burning. Studies show that early incorporation is one the most cost-effective,...

Carbon Footprint Calculator customized for rice products: Concept and characterization of rice value chains in Southeast Asia

The ability to quantify GHG emissions along the entire value chain from farm to shelf for a specific product is the key to enhancing the transparency of...

Integrated weed management in transplanted rice: Options for addressing labor constraints and improving farmers’ income in Bangladesh

Weeds are among the main biological constraints to realizing attainable rice yield potential and significantly reducing profitability. In Bangladesh, the...

Seed priming with potassium nitrate and gibberellic acid enhances the performance of dry direct-seeded rice in northwest India

Dry direct-seeded rice (DSR) has emerged as a socio-economically viable and environmentally promising alternative to puddled transplanting to achieve...

Improving nitrogen-use efficiency: A key for sustainable rice production systems

The orientation of producing more food, associated with fertilizer overuse, particularly nitrogen (N), has caused a deterioration in soil physical, chemical,...

From cool to warm: Making temperate japonica rice more widely available to farmers in tropical Southeast Asia

In the past 29 years, the Germplasm Utilization Value Added (GUVA) project has delivered six released varieties that are resistant to some of the major...

Organic amendments boost soil fertility and rice productivity and reduce methane emissions from paddy fields under sub-tropical conditions

Commercial-oriented farming practices have seriously deteriorated soil health along with contributing to environmental pollution. This study suggested...

Weeds and their responses to management efforts in a changing climate

Climate change is likely to have huge impacts on the problematic weeds and their management. Therefore, continuous research is needed to formulate new...

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