Water-wise rice production /

IRRI, together with Plant Research International of Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR-PRI; the Netherlands), organized a thematic workshop on water-wise rice production, 8-11 April 2002 at IRRI headquarters in Los Ba?os, Philippines. The objectives were to present and discuss the state-of-art in the development, dissemination, and adoption of water-saving technologies at spatial scales ranging from the field to irrigation system. The workshop brought together scientists and irrigation system managers from several consortia and projects examining water scarcity in rice production: the Water Workgroup of the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium, the Rice-Wheat Consortium, and the projects, Water-less Rice, Growing more rice with less water, and Ground Cover Rice Production Systems. Chapters in the book are devoted to topics of intermittent irrigation, System of Rice Intensification (SRI), aerobic rice, rice-wheat, physiology and breeding, and irrigation systems. As a special feature of this book, one additional chapter, Technology transfer for water savings in the Philippines, is included on a CD as a 22-minute movie in mpeg format.