Water Management in Rice-Based Ecosystems and Aquaculture

Discover rice’s profound impact on nutrition, culture, and agriculture as the text examines production trends, export-import dynamics, and water resource challenges. Covering diverse rice cultivation systems, innovative irrigation techniques, and integrated rice-fish methods, it offers insights for sustainable rural resilience.
This book contains 10 comprehensive chapters, covering information on the importance of rice as food and nutrition, its cultural heritage, trends in area, production, and yield, rice bowls in India, export-import status over years and challenges; water resources and issues and challenges in water management, irrigation sources, irrigated rice area, challenges in water management; rice agro-ecosystems in India, rice cultivation systems; water management strategies and technologies in rice, technological choices under water scarcity, crop diversification options; water management strategies for dry season crops under rice-based systems, adoption of water-saving irrigation methods, land modification and planting methods for irrigation water saving; integrated rice-fish farming systems, global scenario, eco-agriculture- agronomic and aquaculture management, rice-fish and animal co-culture and its impacts; pond-based integrated farming systems, its basic principles, aims, components, advantages, fresh-water pond based farming, water budgeting in aquaculture based integrated farming; high-value aquaculture under integrated farming system, water quality, prawn culture, pearl culture and ornamental fish culture rice-based systems; peoples awareness of ecosystem services, agro-ecosystem features and properties, assessments, rice ecosystem services, biodiversity, strengthening resilience of rural communities: ecosystem-based adaptation, role of farm women in the management of rice-based ecosystems; water governance and participatory irrigation management for rice-based agro-ecosystems.

Contributor: Krishna Gopal Mandal (Edited by), Amod Kumar Thakur (Edited by), Rajeeb Kumar Mohanty (Edited by), Souvik Ghosh (Edited by), Pothula Srinivasa Bramhanand (Edited by)

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