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. Talking to BSS, ...

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 in the level of ...

Farmers inspect rice crops affected by floods in La Union in this Oct. 12, 2021 file photo. — PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS THE Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) said it has entered into ...

MANILA, Philippines – Producing Juan’s meal-time favorite – a cup of steaming, freshly cooked rice – is a complicated task. There’s the constant problem of meeting the daily demand for it, what with ...

Tilda claims to have helped increase the annual rice yields of a group of north Indian farmers by 7%. It worked with 1,270 farmers in northern India in 2023, teaching them the alternate wet and dry ...

Farmers in the district are growing rice with reduced irrigation cost, thanks to a water-saving system developed by local experts. The method known as Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) requires only ...

The continuous flooding method of rice farming is a major contributor to climate change due to its high tendency to emit methane into the atmosphere. It is evident that climate change is already ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Proper irrigation, including the use of alternative wetting and drying methods, will help protect crops during the ongoing drought and saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta.