EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF AEROBIC RICE USING DRIP IRRIGATION TECHNOLOGY UNDER TROPICAL CONDITIONS

P. SOMAN¹*, SUNDAR SINGH², V.R. BALASUBRAMANIAM³, AMOL CHOUDHARY^4
1Research and Development Farm, Jain Irrigation systems Ltd., Tiruppur, Udumalpet, 642154, Tamil Nadu, India
²Research and Development Farm, Jain Irrigation systems Ltd., Tiruppur, Udumalpet, 642154, Tamil Nadu, India
³Research and Development Farm, Jain Irrigation systems Ltd., Tiruppur, Udumalpet, 642154, Tamil Nadu, India
⁴Research and Development Farm, Jain Irrigation systems Ltd., Tiruppur, Udumalpet, 642154, Tamil Nadu, India
* Corresponding Author : dr.soman@jains.com

Received : 03-05-2018     Accepted : 21-05-2018     Published : 30-05-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 10       Pages : 6040 - 6043
Int J Agr Sci 10.10 (2018):6040-6043

Keywords : Drip irrigation, Fertigation, Water productivity, Aerobic rice
Academic Editor : Dr Jayant Bhat
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Author thankful to Research and Development farm, Jain Irrigation systems Ltd., Udumalpet, Tamil Nadu, India. This is a part of continuous research program taken up by the Principal investigator to adapt
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

Conventional method of rice cultivation consumes large volumes of irrigation water. The introduction of direct dry seeding of rice, in upland environment is found to reduce water consumption to some extent. In this paper, a novel method of irrigation for rice through drip method and fertilizer application through drip system, fertigation, are tried on rice crop and found that the results are quite positive. The experiments are conducted in the Research farm of Jain Irrigation, in Tamilnadu in 2010 and 2011. Six rice varieties, known for adaptation to aerobic growing conditions were tested. Rice grew well under drip and fertigation. Rice yields under drip irrigation ranged from 4.5 to 8.2 t/ha among the varieties; indicating an increase in yield of 17-22% over those from conventional flood irrigation treatment. The water saved in drip method was around 50-61%. Highlighting that drip method of irrigation results in high water use efficiency, we could record water productivity of rice from 0.365 kg/m3 to 0.714 kg/m3 among the varieties tested. These water productivity figures are way above those obtained in flood method of irrigation, 0.097 to 0.224 kg/m3.

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