Strategic rice cultivation with energy crop rotation in Southeast Asia

Activity I: Main features of rice production in SEA
• Cultivation practices of rice in SEA do not differ much.
• Climate is a factor that classifies rice cultivation into wet and dry season, and
each country in SEA refers to wet and dry season in a different way, e.g.
• Wet season of rice (WS) and dry season of rice (DS) in Cambodia;
• Monsoon rice and summer rice in Myanmar; and
• Major rice and second rice in Thailand.
• There are 2 main planting methods used for rice,
• Broadcasting - large scale production, not labor intensive
• Transplanting - traditional method, labour intensive, found mainly in NE
of Thailand, small farms in Cambodia, most areas in Lao PDR, 80% of rice
farms in Myanmar, and traditional farms in Vietnam).