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2. Container garden - Wikipedia

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   Container gardening or pot gardening/farming is the practice of growing plants, including edible plants, exclusively in containers instead of planting them in the ground. [1] A container in gardening is a small, enclosed and usually portable object used for displaying live flowers or plants.

3. Sub-irrigated planter - Wikipedia

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   Sub-irrigated planter (SIP) is a generic name for a special type of planting box used in container gardening and commercial landscaping. A SIP is any method of watering plants where the water is introduced from the bottom, allowing the water to soak upwards to the plant through capillary action . [ 1 ]

4. Puddling (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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   Puddling is the tillage of rice paddies while flooded, an ancient practice that is used to prepare for rice cultivation. Historically, this has been accomplished by dragging a weighted harrow across a flooded paddy field behind a buffalo or ox, and is now accomplished using mechanized approaches, often using a two-wheel tractor.

5. Direct seeded rice - Wikipedia

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   Direct seeded rice (DSR) [2] [3] is a practice of sowing paddy which involves planting rice seeds directly into the field, instead of the traditional method of growing seedlings in nurseries and then transplanting them into the fields. This method significantly reduces the demand for labor, one of the major costs associated with rice farming.

6. Rice-duck farming - Wikipedia

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   While rice is growing: Ducks eat pests (e.g. brown planthoppers) in the crop; they stir water, limiting weeds, and manure the rice. Surface must be even; water depth must suit ducks; young ducks best as they don't nibble rice leaf tips. [5] Rice-fish-duck: China: Fishes bred on rice terraces: Fattens ducks and fish, controls pests, manures the ...

7. Upland rice - Wikipedia

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   Ecosystems involving upland rice are often relatively diverse, including fields that are level, gently rolling, or steep. Such ecosystems also occur at altitudes up to 2,000 m, with average annual rainfall ranging between 1,000 mm to 4,500 mm. Soils used to grow upland rice range from highly fertile to highly weathered, infertile, and acidic soil.