Expanded adoption of Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) irrigation method during Boro rice farming can save minimum 30% irrigation water along with considerably increasing rice output.

Agriculturists at a meeting have said adoption of Alternate Drying and Wetting (AWD) irrigation technology in farming Boro rice increases up to 15% rice yield saving up to 30% underground water.

Farmers in the vast Barind tracts are being encouraged to adopt “Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD)”, an irrigation method which helps save water in aquifers amidst an abnormal decline ...

Over the last 10 yr, California has experienced a series of ever-worsening droughts. Rice, traditionally a flooded crop, has come under increasing scrutiny with respect to its water use, leading to ...