water management - Rice Today

Irrigating with cooler water does not reverse high temperature impact on grain yield and quality in hybrid rice

High temperatures cause significant yield losses in major rice-growing areas of the world, posing a stiff challenge in meeting the demand for rice from...

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,...

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...

Disentangling challenges to scaling alternate wetting and drying technology for rice cultivation: Distilling lessons from 20 years of experience in the Philippines

The review’s findings point to the importance of rethinking the boundaries and assumptions of scaling theory of change for alternate wetting and drying;...

Crop diversification in rice-based systems in the polders of Bangladesh: Yield stability, profitability, and associated risk

Bangladesh is ranked among the top 10 most climate-vulnerable countries in the world. Therefore, finding a resilient crop and cropping system is the...

Flag leaf findings could accelerate the breeding of high-yielding, water-efficient rice

As breeders continue to search for ways to improve crop varieties to enable farmers to sustainably produce more grains and contribute to global food security,...

A physician-turned-farmer with a mission to modernize rice farming

A medical doctor who is also a farmer not only adopted the laser land leveling technology but piloted a service provision model for it—a first of...

New research investigates what hinders wide adoption and scaling of alternate wetting and drying in Bangladesh

Despite the widespread testing and promotion, alternate wetting and drying (AWD) has not been adopted in the entire country. New research investigates...

From Warige to WeRise: better water management is coming to rainfed rice areas of Indonesia

As climate patterns become more unpredictable, rice farmers are relying on a modern way of to forecast the monsoon rains. ...

Improving water and nutrient management for double cropping in Cambodia

Growing dry-season crops after rice on hard-setting soils can pose serious challenges to Cambodian farmers seeking to diversify and intensify with greater...

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