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Article: New Rice Techniques Promise 25 Percent Less Water
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 17, 1999
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New, water-saving techniques are being developed that could save
up to 25 percent of the water now used to grow rice, the
Consultative
Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) reported on
Monday.
Such techniques are especially important for Asia, where demand
for water is expected to increase sharply over the next 25 years
more than 50 percent in Southeast Asia and India alone, and 40
percent in China and where about half of irrigated land is planted
in rice, the CGIAR said in a statement.
The new rice techniques include wet seeding, intermittent rice
irrigation, land leveling, improved weed management, and mangement
of
cracked soils.
The announcement of the scientific ...