Complex rice systems to improve rice yield and yield stability in the face of variable weather conditions.

ABSTRACT: Extreme weather events and pest outbreaks decrease rice yields and increase their variability, presenting challenges for the agricultural agenda to increase rice productivity and yield stability in Asia. The integration of azolla, fish and ducks has been shown to create robust systems that maintain high yields under heavy rainfall, but no clear evidence exists that rice yields in these systems are stable across locations and throughout time under divergent weather conditions. We show that the introduction of additional elements into the rice cropping system enhanced the adaptive capacity to extreme weather events across four locations and three cropping cycles. The complex system showed both static and dynamic stability, and had the highest reliability index, thereby outperforming the conv

SUBMITTER: Khumairoh U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6170462 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature