Mechanized wet direct seeding for increased rice production efficiency and reduced carbon footprint.

ABSTRACT: Crop establishment is one of the major rice production operations that strongly affects rice production, productivity, and environmental impacts. This research introduced a new technology and provided scientific evidence for the benefits of mechanized wet direct seeding (mDSR) of rice as compared with the other crop establishment practices commonly applied by farmers for wet direct seeded rice in Mekong River Delta in Vietnam, such as seeding in line using drum-seeder (dDSR) and broadcast seeding (bDSR). The experiment was implemented across two consecutive rice cropping seasons that are Winter-Spring season and Summer-Autumn season in 2020-2021. Treatments included (1-3) mDSR with seeding rates of 30, 50, and 70 kg ha^- 1, (4) dDSR with 80 kg ha^- 1 seed rate, and (5)

SUBMITTER: Van Hung N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11467092 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature