AGRONOMY AND Water Harvesting
As part of a project to create feeding grounds for storks in rice paddies, Ohara has scrapped using chemicals on 40 percent of his one hectare of paddy fields and has reduced his use of chemicals on the rest.
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) combines a number of agronomic practices to boost yields while cutting back on inputs and water.
The first stage of the project has been completed, and it consisted of the screening and phenotypic characterization of varieties.
The Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology (FONTAGRO, its Spanish acronym) announced on 14 March that the case “Transforming Rain-fed to Irrigation Agriculture through Rainwater Harvesting in Nicaragua and Mexico,” submitted by the Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice (FLAR) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), was among the winners of the contest for innovative cases of family…
Specific approved methods of rice production that pertain to dry seeding, drainage practices and handling of rice straw have been established for participating in the carbon credit market, as it is normally referred to.
Achieving higher yields at lower costs could help reduce poverty, hunger, and other social ills.
First major US rice drip-irrigation project at a California ranch leverages Israeli research and technology.
The hot and dry weather could also increase the population of rice pest, which could contribute to the decline in rice yields.
In the framework of the exchange activities of the “Development and adoption of a low input rice production system through genetic breeding and advanced crop management technologies” project, better known as SATREPS, where the Colombian and Japanese governments are collaborating, Dr. Tadashi Chosa, presented his work on a yield monitoring system used during…
A women’s group from Manyata show the multiple uses of broken rice.
