From environheroes.com – August 17, 8:49 PM Climate-Smart Rice Farming and Environment Smart Rice Farming are being used interchangeably to refer to the system of rice farming that sustainably. Rice farming today is faced with several agronomic and environmental challenges related to the intensification of crop production. Deceleration in the growth of rice yields, soil depletion, growing water use, […]
From dailynews.co.tz – August 24, 6:12 PM In a bid to boost agriculture production, the government has managed to increase irrigation areas by 233,715 hectares in the past five years. The National Irrigation Commission (NIRC), Acting Director General, Mr Daudi Kaali, noted “NIRC has been able to rehabilitate 179 irrigation schemes’ infrastructures in a period of five […]
This aim of the study, conducted at Golinga irrigation scheme in Ghana, was to investigate how water supply and plant density, components of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), can improve rice yield and reduce water use. Water control and planting distance interaction significantly influenced plant height where intermittent flooding promoted taller plants in narrow […]