Vol. 6, Issue 6 (2018)
Aerobic rice: Rice for future
Author(s): Daly George
Abstract: Rice production and food security largely depend on the irrigated lowland rice system. But, fresh water scarcity, water pollution, competition for water use, growing population, rising demand for food, climate change and global warming, higher cost of irrigation, and poor availability of labour have threatened the puddled transplanted system of rice. Aerobic rice has been identified as a potential new technology, which can reduce water use in rice production and produce more rice with less water. Water productivity is high and labour requirement is less under aerobic rice production system; it also minimizes greenhouse gas emission rates from rice fields. Aerobic rice is a projected sustainable rice production methodology for the immediate future to address water scarcity and environmental safety in the scenario of global warming. However the hurdles in achieving potential yield under aerobic system has to be overcome by focused research, then only we can make aerobic rice a potentially viable alternative to lowland rice.
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Daly George. Aerobic rice: Rice for future. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(6):481-485.
