Training Report in Safe Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Method for Rice Cultivation with Less Water Use

Management practices that simultaneously enhance rice yield, water productivity, labor productivity, and grain quality are needed for improving crop production and mitigating the negative impact of water scarcity on food security. Among the water-saving technologies that were developed in recent dec...

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Autores principales: Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Tchetan, Blaise, Guindo, Jonathan, Koné, Pierre
Formato: Informe técnico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128469
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author Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald
Tchetan, Blaise
Guindo, Jonathan
Koné, Pierre
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Guindo, Jonathan
Koné, Pierre
Tchetan, Blaise
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Tchetan, Blaise
Guindo, Jonathan
Koné, Pierre
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description Management practices that simultaneously enhance rice yield, water productivity, labor productivity, and grain quality are needed for improving crop production and mitigating the negative impact of water scarcity on food security. Among the water-saving technologies that were developed in recent decades, the alternate wetting and drying (AWD) method of irrigation is widely advocated for its potential to increase water productivity while maintaining rice yield compared to continuous flooding. Under AWD, fields are subjected to intermittent flooding where irrigation is interrupted, and water is allowed to subside until the water table falls down to a threshold below the soil surface, after which the field is re-flooded. Previous studies indicated an increase in water productivity under AWD compared to continuous flooding with other co-benefits including a decrease in methane emissions, a decrease in the concentration of arsenic in grains, and an increase in the internal phosphorus use efficiency. However, yield reductions were also reported under AWD particularly when the drying phase occurs during the flowering stage, or water recedes below 15 cm soil depth. The safe AWD was developed to ensure similar or higher rice yield and grain quality under safe AWD compared to continuous flooding. Despite the benefits of safe AWD, the technology is new, and not known by many stakeholders in Mali. AICCRA-Mali strengthened the capacity of 18 staff from Niger Office including 6 women in the implementation of safe AWD for producing rice with less water and less greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining rice yield and grain quality compared to the farmers’ practices of continuous flooding.
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spelling CGSpace1284692025-11-11T17:02:39Z Training Report in Safe Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Method for Rice Cultivation with Less Water Use Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald Tchetan, Blaise Guindo, Jonathan Koné, Pierre agriculture climate-smart agriculture drying water rice cultivation Management practices that simultaneously enhance rice yield, water productivity, labor productivity, and grain quality are needed for improving crop production and mitigating the negative impact of water scarcity on food security. Among the water-saving technologies that were developed in recent decades, the alternate wetting and drying (AWD) method of irrigation is widely advocated for its potential to increase water productivity while maintaining rice yield compared to continuous flooding. Under AWD, fields are subjected to intermittent flooding where irrigation is interrupted, and water is allowed to subside until the water table falls down to a threshold below the soil surface, after which the field is re-flooded. Previous studies indicated an increase in water productivity under AWD compared to continuous flooding with other co-benefits including a decrease in methane emissions, a decrease in the concentration of arsenic in grains, and an increase in the internal phosphorus use efficiency. However, yield reductions were also reported under AWD particularly when the drying phase occurs during the flowering stage, or water recedes below 15 cm soil depth. The safe AWD was developed to ensure similar or higher rice yield and grain quality under safe AWD compared to continuous flooding. Despite the benefits of safe AWD, the technology is new, and not known by many stakeholders in Mali. AICCRA-Mali strengthened the capacity of 18 staff from Niger Office including 6 women in the implementation of safe AWD for producing rice with less water and less greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining rice yield and grain quality compared to the farmers’ practices of continuous flooding. 2022-12 2023-02-06T13:31:17Z 2023-02-06T13:31:17Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128469 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Dossou-Yovo E, Tchetan B, Guindo J, Kone P. 2022. Training Report in Safe Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Method for Rice Cultivation with Less Water Use. AICCRA Activity Report. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).
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climate-smart agriculture
drying
water
rice
cultivation
Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald
Tchetan, Blaise
Guindo, Jonathan
Koné, Pierre
Training Report in Safe Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Method for Rice Cultivation with Less Water Use
title Training Report in Safe Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Method for Rice Cultivation with Less Water Use
title_full Training Report in Safe Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Method for Rice Cultivation with Less Water Use
title_fullStr Training Report in Safe Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Method for Rice Cultivation with Less Water Use
title_full_unstemmed Training Report in Safe Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Method for Rice Cultivation with Less Water Use
title_short Training Report in Safe Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Method for Rice Cultivation with Less Water Use
title_sort training report in safe alternate wetting and drying irrigation method for rice cultivation with less water use
topic agriculture
climate-smart agriculture
drying
water
rice
cultivation
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128469
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