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      • Soil fertility
      • Weed management
      • Pests and diseases
    • Postproduction
      • Harvesting
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  • Home
  • About Rice Knowledge Bank
  • Step-by-step production
    • Pre-planting
      • Rice varieties
        • IRRI released improved rice varieties Link opens new window
        • Philippine Seedboard (PSB)/NSIC Rice Varieties Link opens new window
        • Variety selection (Fact sheet) Link opens new window
        • Rice price watch
        • Steps for farmers to produce their own good seed Link opens new window
      • Seed quality
        • Producing good seed Link opens new window
        • How to treat seed Link opens new window
        • Seed Certification Standard in the Philippines Link opens new window
      • Crop calendar
      • Land preparation
        • Wet preparation
        • Dry preparation
        • Training materials
          • Reference manual
        • Leveling implements
        • Laser leveling
        • Field operations during fallow period
        • How to construct bunds
    • Growth
      • Planting
        • Transplanting
          • Nursery systems
          • Preparing seedlings for mechanical transplanting
          • How to pull rice seedlings
        • Direct seeding
        • How to prepare the seedlings for transplanting
      • Water management
        • Coping with water scarcity Link opens new window
        • Alternate Wetting Drying (AWD)
        • Aerobic rice
        • FAQs
      • Soil fertility
        • Cover crops
        • Leaf Color Chart
        • e-learning
        • Deficiencies and toxicities
        • How to make a compost
        • Crop residues as mulches
      • Weed management
        • Stale seedbed technique
        • Herbicides
        • Manual and mechanical weeding
        • Chemical weed control
        • Cultural weed control
        • Main weeds of rice in Asia
        • Manual weed control
        • Mechanical weed control
        • How to control weeds in the nursery
        • The dirty dozen
      • Pests and diseases
        • Diseases
        • Insects
        • Golden apple snails
        • Rats
        • Birds
    • Postproduction
      • Harvesting
        • Harvesting systems
        • Harvesting operations
          • Reaping
            • Manual cutting
            • Mechanical cutting
          • Threshing
            • Manual threshing
            • Machine threshing
              • Troubleshooting of a rice thresher
              • Using an IRRI axial flow thresher
              • Classification of threshers
              • Machine threshing health and safety
            • Guidelines on proper threshing
              • Health and safety during harvesting
          • Cleaning
          • Combine harvesting
            • Combine harvesting health and safety
            • Examples of mini combines common in Asia
        • Harvesting costs
        • Guidelines on proper harvesting
        • Measuring moisture content
          • Moisture content calculations
        • FAQs
      • Drying
        • Drying systems
        • Drying basics
          • Grain and air properties
          • Drying process
            • Fundamentals of grain drying
          • Methods in measuring moisture content for drying
            • Measuring moisture content in drying
              • IRRI moisture meter
            • Using moisture meters
          • Grain moisture content and grain quality
          • How to determine the EMC
          • What is equilibrium relative humidity?
        • Traditional drying systems
          • Sun drying
            • Options for sun drying
            • How to improve sun drying
          • Field drying and stacking
        • Mechanical drying systems
          • Heated air drying
            • Heated air drying and low-temperature drying
            • Options for heated air drying
          • In-store drying
            • Options for in-store drying
          • Solar Bubble Dryer
            • Solar Bubble Dryer (Fact sheet) Link opens new window
          • Examples of mechanical dryers
          • Guidelines on using mechanical dryers
        • Guidelines on proper drying
        • Drying strategies
          • De-centralized on farm drying
          • Centralized drying
          • Two stage drying
        • Economic aspects of drying
        • Dryer components
        • FAQs
      • Storage
        • Storage systems
          • Bag storage
          • Bulk storage
          • Hermetic storage systems
            • IRRI super bag
            • Cocoon
            • Using local containers
        • Moisture content for safe storage
        • Storage hygiene
        • Storage pests
          • Fungi
          • Rodents
        • FAQs
      • Milling and processing
        • Milling systems
          • Village milling
          • Commercial milling
        • Milling and quality
          • Measuring moisture content
            • Methods for measuring moisture content
        • By-products and their utilization
          • Rice husk
          • Rice bran
        • Producing good quality milled rice
          • Quality problems in milling
          • Milling yields
        • IRRI Rice Quality Assessment Kit
        • FAQs
      • By-products
        • Rice straw
          • In-field rice straw management
          • Off-field rice straw management
        • Rice husk
          • Rice husk pelletizing and briquetting
          • Using rice husk for energy production
          • Rice husk furnace
          • Gasification of rice husk
          • Carbonization of rice husk
        • Rice bran
  • Agronomy guides
  • Decision tools
    • Rice Doctor
      • Diagnostic tool
      • Fact sheets
    • Crop Manager
    • Weed Identification
    • Growth stages and important management factors
  • Training
    • Fact sheets
      • Land preparation
        • Land leveling
        • Types of farm power
      • Planting
        • Hybrid rice
        • Modified mat nursery
        • Reduced area wetbed nursery
        • Dry direct seeding
        • Wet direct seeding
        • Manual transplanting
        • Machine transplanting
        • Using a drum seeder to sow pre-germinated seed
        • Variety selection
      • Water management
        • Good water management practices
        • Saving water: Alternate Wetting Drying (AWD)
        • Aerobic rice
      • Nutrient management
        • Composting rice residue
        • Using organic materials and manures
        • Addition plots
        • Nitrogen split applications
        • Nutrient omission plots
        • Deficiencies and toxicities
      • Pest management
        • Weeds
          • Main weeds of rice in Asia
          • Manual weed control
          • Cultural weed control
          • Mechanical weed control
          • Chemical weed control
        • Rats
          • Rodent control (non-chemical) in lowland irrigated rice
        • Diseases
        • Insects
      • Postharvest management
        • Drying
          • Paddy drying systems
          • Sun drying
          • Heated air drying and low-temperature drying
          • Options for "Heated air drying"
          • Energy options for rice drying
        • Rice quality
          • Measuring varietal purity
        • Storage
          • Hermetically sealed systems
      • Management of other crop problems
        • Measuring seed germination
      • Conducting training
      • Technology transfer methods
    • Training resources
    • Creating extension materials
      • Why develop extension materials?
      • The role of demonstration
      • How to develop extension material?
      • Guidelines for written materials: brochures and bulletins
      • Guidelines for poster presentations
    • Increasing Impact: a checklist
    • Farmer participatory research
      • FPR for relevance
      • How is FPR carried out?
  • Game of Rice Link opens new window
  • Country specific
    • Asia
      • Rice Knowledge for Bangladesh
        • Bangladesh Rice Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
        • Rice in Bangladesh Link opens new window
        • Agronomy guides for Bangladesh
        • Bangladesh rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for Cambodia
        • Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) Link opens new window
        • SROV PHAL for rainfed lowland rice
        • Agronomy guides for Cambodia
        • Cambodia rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for China
        • 稻作概况
          • 稻作概况
            • 面积和产量
            • 稻田分布
            • 生产特点
            • 发展趋势
          • 稻作区划
          • 耕作制度
        • 基础知识
          • 稻种起源
          • 分类学
          • 形态结构
          • 生长发育
          • 光温特性
          • 高产栽培基础
        • 种植技术
          • 稻田土壤与整地
          • 播种
          • 育秧
          • 移栽
          • 多效唑施用技术
        • 水份管理
          • 高产稻田水份管理
          • 特殊稻田水份管理
        • 肥料管理
          • 稻田肥料管理
        • 病虫草害管理
          • 什么是IPM
          • 水稻病虫害防治现状
          • 稻田常用杀虫剂
          • 稻田常用杀菌剂
          • 稻鸭共育的生防效应
        • 综合配套技术
          • 高产栽培技术
          • 强根技术
          • 高成穗技术
          • 高结实重粒技术
          • 覆膜旱作技术
          • 其他节水栽培法
          • 再生稻技术
          • 直播技术
          • 抛秧技术
          • 拔秧留苗技术
          • 秧田套栽稻技术
          • 寒地垄作稀植技术
          • 强化栽培技术
          • 三系杂交稻繁制种技术
          • 种子包衣及其播种
        • 品种与组合
          • 常规稻
          • 杂交稻
          • 特种稻
        • 产后加工
          • 籼型杂交稻米质分析
          • 稻谷储藏安全水份标准
        • 生产统计数据
          • 水稻总产量
          • 水稻播种面积
          • 水稻单产
        • 法规和标准
          • 水稻标准及其他标准
          • 稻谷
          • 优质稻谷
          • 稻种产地检疫
          • 食用稻品种品质
          • 香稻米
          • 食用粳米
          • 绿色食品—大米
          • 水稻联合收割机
          • 稻田养鱼
      • Rice Knowledge for India
      • Rice Knowledge for Indonesia
        • Indonesia Rice Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
        • Indonesian Food Crop Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
        • Agronomy guides for Indonesia
        • Indonesia rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for Lao PDR
        • Agronomy guides for Lao PDR
        • Lao PDR rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for Myanmar
        • Agronomy guides for Myanmar
        • Training for Myanmar
        • Myanmar rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for Nepal
        • Nepal Rice Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
        • Nepal Agricultural Research Council
        • Agronomy guides for Nepal
        • Nepal rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for Pakistan
        • Agronomy guides for Pakistan
        • Pakistan rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for Philippines
        • Pinoy Rice Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
        • PalayCheck System Link opens new window
        • Philippine Rice Research Institute
        • PalayAralan website Link opens new window
        • PhilRice Seeds for Sale Link opens new window
        • Agronomy guides for Philippines
        • Philippine rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
        • Philippine e-Extension Portal Link opens new window
        • Decision tools for Philippines
      • Rice Knowledge for Sri Lanka
        • Sri Lanka Rice Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
        • Department of Agriculture - Government of Sri Lanka Link opens new window
        • Rice Research and Development Institute Link opens new window
        • Agronomy guides for Sri Lanka
        • Sri Lanka rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for Thailand
        • Thailand Rice Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
        • Bureau of Rice Research and Development (BRRD) Link opens new window
        • Agronomy guides for Thailand
        • Thailand rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for Vietnam
        • Vietnam Rice Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
        • Agronomy guides for Vietnam
        • Vietnam rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
    • Africa
      • Rice Knowledge for Kenya
        • Kenya Agricultural Research Institute Link opens new window
        • Agronomy guides for Kenya
        • Kenya Rice Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for Mozambique
        • Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM)
        • Agronomy guides for Mozambique
        • Mozambique Rice Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
        • Mozambique rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
      • Rice Knowledge for Tanzania
        • Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives Link opens new window
        • Agronomy guides for Tanzania
        • Tanzania Rice Knowledge Bank Link opens new window
        • Tanzania rice production - Ricepedia Link opens new window
 

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