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Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) is a water management technique, practiced to cultivate irrigated lowland rice with much less water than the usual system of maintaining continuous standing water in the crop field. It is a method of controlled and intermittent irrigation.
Julius Kühn-Institut – Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen (JKI) is the German Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants. It is a federal research institute and a higher federal authority divided into 15 specialized institutes.
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a farming methodology that aims to increase the yield of rice while using fewer resources and reducing environmental impacts.. The method was developed by a French Jesuit Father Henri de Laulanié in Madagascar [1] and built upon decades of agricultural experimentat
The Management structure of DOA consists of three research institutes: Rice Research and Development Institute. Field Crops Research and Development Institute. Horticultural Crops Research and Development Institute. Fruit Research and Development Institute; and six technical service centers: Seed Certification and Plant Protection Centre.
IRRI's success in transferring the results of its research, by working with local teams and organizations in Asian and sub-Saharan countries and making its varieties freely available to farmers. By this means, the IRRI has secured the effective dissemination of its innovations with the resultant increase in production of this basic crop. [24]
Field Crops Res 48:47–55; Kondo M, Pablico PP, Aragones DV, Agbisit R, Abe J, Morita S, et al., Genotypic and environmental variations in root morphology in rice genotypes under upland field conditions. Plant Soil 255:189–200 (2003). Passioura J, Increasing crop productivity when water is scarce: from breeding to field management.
An agronomist, field-sampling a trial plot of flax. This topic of agronomy involves selective breeding of plants to produce the best crops for various conditions. Plant breeding has increased crop yields and has improved the nutritional value of numerous crops, including corn, soybeans, and wheat. It has also resulted in the development of new ...
John Bennet Lawes The Centenary building at Rothamsted Research, finished in 2003. The Rothamsted Experimental Station was founded in 1843 by John Bennet Lawes, a noted Victorian era entrepreneur and scientist who had founded one of the first artificial fertilizer manufacturing factories in 1842, on his 16th-century estate, Rothamsted Manor, to investigate the impact of inorganic and organic ...