Rice uses 34 to 43 per cent of the global irrigation water and is responsible for the
withdrawal of 24–30 per cent of the of World's total freshwater. In Asia, irrigation consumes …

Global warming and declining water resources are threatening the sustainability of rice
production and global food security. Conventional continuously flooded system (CF) of rice …

Roots are an integral part of plant organs and involved in acquisition of nutrients and water,
synthesis of plant hormones, organic acids and amino acids, and anchorage of plants. Root …

Inoculating rice plants by plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) may be used as a
practical and eco-friendly approach to sustain the growth and yield of drought stressed rice …

Abstract Rice (Oryza sativa L.), a staple food for more than half of the world population, is
commonly grown by transplanting seedlings into puddled soil (wet tillage) in Asia. This …

Rice–wheat cropping system, intensively followed in Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP), played a
prominent role in fulfilling the food grains demand of the increasing population of South …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

A major challenge in rice production is to achieve the goal of increasing both food
production and resource use efficiency. This study investigated if and how irrigation regimes …

Many environmental factors constrain the production of major food crops in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia. At the same time, these food production systems themselves have a …

Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation has been widely adopted to replace
continuous flooding (CF) irrigation for saving water and increasing water productivity in …