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Research Article | Open Access | Peer Review

Water Requirement of Rice Crop in Madras

Volume : 52
Issue: May-may
Pages: 230 - 238
Published: October 30, 2023
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Abstract


A brief review of the irrigation experiments on rice conducted in Madras Stato is prosented. These experiments dealt with four aspects of the water requirement of rice i.e., intensity, frequency and quantum of irrigation water and the duty of water for rice crop in project areas. Smaller quantities of water in shorter intervals have producod higher yields in rice than larger quantities in longer intervals. In general two inches of standing water always maintained in the field has given maximum yields.

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230 - 238
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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