Submitted by yogesh on Mon, 01/12/2008 - 11:44
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- Climate
- Agroclimatic zone
- Agroecosystem
- Rice ecosystem
- Irrigated ecosystem
- Rice
- India
- IIT-Kanpur
- English
Irrigated rice ecosystems are those areas that have assured irrigation for one or more crops per year. About 57% of world area under rice (about 43 million ha) area under irrigation. Yield levels achieved are 4-7 t ha-1 crop-1. There are three rice environments in this ecosystem, namely, irrigated with favorable temperature, irrigated with unfavorable temperature-tropical zone and irrigated with unfavorable temperature-temperate zone.
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