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Table 4 continued.Scale of analysis/characterization Geographical Environmental characteristics/and rice area area parameters studied ReferencecoveredMicro (–) Rainfed lowland ● Land form <strong>IRRI</strong> (1989b)rice research ● Physiographysite, Khukhar ● SlopeVillage, Thailand ● Land use● Soil fertility and othercharacteristics● Detailed field hydrology● Groundwater table● Rice yields in different soil andland combinationsMega South and ● Climate-rainfall, temperature, and Garrity (1984)(11.6 million Southeast Asia growing season lengthha) ● Slope, soil texture, soil groups,and inherent fertility statusMacro Eastern India ● Irrigation extent <strong>IRRI</strong> (1993)(26.8 million ● Land formha) ● Fertility-related constraintsMacro Côte d’Ivoire ● Rainfall WARDA (1992)(329,000 ha) ● Toposequence position● Tillage method● Rice variety, sowing and intercroppingtechnique● Land tenure● Decision-making by gender● Production objectivetional-level statistics on various types of nonirrigated rice lands are generally unavailable.The work of Huke yielded standard maps of the regional allocations of riceland by ecosystem. The maps provided the basis for more comprehensive mega-levelgeographic databases, for focusing characterization on selected micro-regions, andfor classifying them into subecosystems. The upland ecosystem geographic databasewas the initial product (Garrity 1984, Jones and Garrity 1986). This database containeddata on several agroclimatic and soil parameters for each of the approximately4,000 upland locations on the Huke maps for South and Southeast Asia. The siteswere classified consistently according to a two-factor upland rice environmental classificationbased on the length of the growing season and inherent soil fertility constraints,and also a three-factor system that included an estimate of seasonal moisturesufficiency. The two-factor classification conforms with the four broad uplandsubecosystems specified in the International Terminology of Rice Environments (<strong>IRRI</strong>1984). The three-factor classification recognizes 12 major classes and, at a more de-12 Singh et al

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