The alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation technique can reduce methane emissions from rice fields by 32.5 percent, ...

Expanded adoption of Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) irrigation method during Boro rice farming can save minimum 30% irrigation water along with considerably increasing rice output.

Agriculturists at a meeting have said adoption of Alternate Drying and Wetting (AWD) irrigation technology in farming Boro rice increases up to 15% rice yield saving up to 30% underground water.

Several indica rice genotypes have been shown to suppress E. crus-galli under FLD management, but very little is known about the nature and potential of weed suppression using AWD irrigation. In this ...

Farmers in the vast Barind tracts are being encouraged to adopt “Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD)”, an irrigation method which helps save water in aquifers amidst an abnormal decline ...

This project, which will be piloted in Brgy. Burgos in Sto. Domingo, Nueva Ecija, will compare alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation method with conventional continuous flooding during the ...