This text focuses on Rice-wheat production, undoubtedly the most important cropping system in the world today. It covers approximately 22 million hectares and feeds around one billion people in continental Asia. In view of projected global defecit of about 45 million tones of rice and wheat by the year 2005, the importance of rice-wheat production systems can hardly be over emphasized.
This text focuses on Rice-wheat production, undoubtedly the most important cropping system in the world today. It covers approximately 22 million hectares and feeds around one billion people in continental Asia. In view of projected global defecit of about 45 million tones of rice and wheat by the year 2005, the importance of rice-wheat production systems can hardly be over emphasized.
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978-1-886106-50-5 (9781886106505)
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Sustainability and productivity of rice-wheat systems in Asia-Pacific region - research and technology development needs; sustainabilty issues related to rice-wheat production system in Asia; major issues in Asian rice-wheat production system; areas, locations, and ongoing collaborative research for rice-wheat systems in Asia; rice-wheat production system in eastern India and Bangladesh: recent development and economic constraints; irrigations and drainage for the rice-wheat system - management aspects; rice-wheat systems research in South Asia - ecoregional emphasis and international collaboration; support of the rice-wheat in Bangladesh; sustainability of the rice-wheat production systems in Bhutan; rice-wheat systems in India; rice-wheat production system in Myanmar; sustainability of rice-wheat production systems in Nepal; rice-wheat systems in Pakistan - the sustainability questions; rice-wheat production systems in Thailand.
