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Table 1. Time of establishment and cumulative rainfall with different rice establishmentmethods, 1995-2000, Raipur, India.Establishment method Event Day of year Cumulative rainfall (mm)Dry-seeded rice Sowing 159 0Establishment 177 131 ± 51Broadcast, biasi rice (moist soil) a Sowing 174 112 ± 52Establishment 193 255 ± 60Biasi (plowing) 219 532 ± 106Transplanted rice Transplanting 219 496 ± 112a 1998-2000 onlySource: Rathore and Sahu (2002).DS is an alternative to transplanting. Changes in the weed flora caused by the shiftto direct seeding and related issues are treated in the third part of this document, andlastly we look at the possibilities and options of more flexible crop establishment andmanagement systems.Improving productivity in the existing DS systemsIn the rainfed lowland rice areas of eastern India (approx. 12.8 million ha) that aresubject to shallow and intermediate flooding depth, biasi (also referred to as beusheningor beusani) is a traditional rice establishment method, popular among farmersin 50% to 80% of the area (Koshta et al 1991, Nayak and Lenka 1988, Tomar 2002).In the biasi system, with the first rains, dry rice seed is broadcast on fields followedby wet plowing in order to control weeds at 20–35 days after emergence and whenthere is 5–10 cm of water on the fields (Fujisaka et al 1993). Rice is able to recoverafter the plowing, provided there is sufficient water in the fields, whereas many ofthe weeds do not. Farmers may also undertake some supplementary hand weeding tocontrol subsequent weed growth.Studies in the 1990s showed that different practices for dry seeding could lead toimproved crop growth and increase the chances of growing a second crop. Dry sowingcould be undertaken before the monsoon has started, whereas sowing in moist soil,as practiced with the biasi system, requires 112 mm on average while transplantingrequires almost 500 mm of rainfall (Table 1). DS rice suffered less from water deficit,resulted in better rainfall-use efficiency (Rathore and Sahu 2002), and gave the bestyields over the three years of study (Table 2). Further, DS rice could be established 16days before sufficient rainfall to moisten the seedbed for biasi and 42 days ahead oftransplanting. Advancing the rice crop increased the chances of a subsequent crop; in1998, DS rice and earlier planting of chickpea gave the best yield and in the followingyear only dry seeding of rice permitted a second crop (Table 2). No second crop waspossible in 2000, a drought year.Direct seeding of rice and opportunities for improving productivity in Asia 203
Table 2. Effects of rice establishment method on rice and chickpea grain yield (t ha –1 ) in anon-station experiment at Raipur, India, 1998-2000.EstablishmentYearCrop method a 1998 b 1999 c 2000 dRice DSR dry 4.61 4.22 3.12DSR moist 4.21 3.61 0.82DSR biasi 3.55 2.72 0.68TPR 3.25 1.69 0.39Chickpea DSR dry 1.10 0.62 NEDSR moist 0.96 0 NEDSR biasi 0.88 0 NETPR 0.69 0 NEa DSR = dry-seeded rice in dry or moist soil, or in the biasi system. TPR = transplanted rice. NE = not established.b Normal year. c Moderate drought year. d Severe drought year.Source: Rathore and Sahu (2002).Similar amounts of cumulative rainfall were required for biasi plowing as fortransplanting (Table 1) and this is related to one of the constraints in the system.Poor rainfall can lead to delayed wet plowing and high crop losses because of weedcompetition. Improved weed management options based on row seeding, interrowcultivation, and herbicides could eliminate the need for wet plowing (biasi) of therice at the tillering stage and provide a pathway to improving crop productivity. Linesowing rather than broadcasting permits interrow cultivation and easier hand weeding,and the application of either preemergence (pendimethalin) or postemergence herbicide(fenoxaprop + chlorimuron ethyl + metsulfuron) provides further options. Weedbiomass was greatest at 20 DAE where rice had been sown into dry soil; at 35 DAE,across the weed management treatments, weed density and biomass were greatest inthe broadcast biasi (Table 3). Weed biomass at 20 DAE was least, across establishmentmethods, with preemergence herbicide and at 35 DAE with the postemergenceherbicide treatment. Across weed management treatments and three sites, DS rice, linesown in moist soil, gave the best yield compared with line sowing in dry soil or thetraditional biasi system (4.05, 3.62, and 2.96 t ha –1 , respectively, LSD 5% = 0.182).Farmers in Java also practice dry seeding, though within different systems thanthose of eastern India. In Central Java, two rice crops and often a vegetable crop areharvested from fields in one year in areas with a total rainfall of about 1,500 mm andwithout supplementary irrigation (Pane et al 2005). In this system, dry-seeded rice(gogorancah) is grown at the beginning of the rainy season, followed by a transplantedrice crop (walik jerami). Both rice crops may be subject to flooding of varying periods,with duration and depth depending on the toposequence. In this labor-intensive system,dry seeding of rice helps farmers make maximum use of the potential growing season.Studies on yield constraints in farmers’ fields examined losses to weeds to determinethe specific scope to increase productivity through improved weed management. Ad-204 Johnson et al
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AcknowledgmentsIRRI is most gratefu
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The High Barind Tract: a challengin
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irrigation across the entire Barind
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Subsistence pressureLand pressure,
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to fixed tenancy. The implication i
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Table 1. Planting dates, direct-see
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