WATER CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
WATER CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
- Water control and management is vital for optimum crop growth and productivity to ensure the availability of the required amount of water throughout the crop growth period
- Water management practices such as leveling, bunding, making canals, siting inlets and outlets properly, are vital to ensuring efficient water supply and distribution
- Irrigation schemes should have adequate water from transplanting time to about physiological maturity period
- Flood field to a depth of 5 to 10 cm up to physiological maturity
- Under SRI, intermittent water supply is encouraged whereby there is water supply in the fields and then drying to the point the field shows some fine hairline cracks
- Flooded 5-10cm B. Intermittent period C. Hairline cracks
Field showing hairline cracks ©S, Hidayah et al.
