There is increasing experience with the valuation of ecosystem services. However, to date, less attention has been devoted to who is actually benefiting from ecosystem services. This nevertheless is a key issue, in particular, if ecosystem services analysis and valuation is used to support environmental management. This study assesses and analyzes how the monetary benefits of seven ecosystem se...

Seeing the sustainability of rice-wheat cropping system (RWCS) of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, adequate crop nutrition in general and nitrogen (N) in particular holds the key to sound crop management. The excessive application or insufficient management of N means an economic loss to the farmer and may lead to yield penalties and environmental problems. Improving N management in consonance with oth...

This study offers evidence of the robustness of farmer rice varieties (Oryza glaberrima and O. sativa) in West Africa. Our experiments in five West African countries showed that farmer varieties were tolerant of sub-optimal conditions, but employed a range of strategies to cope with stress. Varieties belonging to the species Oryza glaberrima - solely the product of farmer agency - were the most...

In this paper, we developed a more sophisticated method for detection and estimation of mixed paddy rice agriculture from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data. Previous research demonstrated thatMODIS data can be used tomap paddy rice fields and to distinguish rice from other crops at large, continental scaleswith combined Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and Land...

Accurate information of paddy fields over wide areas is essential to support sustainable agricultural and a food security program. Monitoring of these lands continuously, using remote sensing technology, will provide information related to the cropping intensity in the field, as well as its dynamics change. We characterized seasonal vegetation dynamics from long-term multi-temporal MODIS satell...

The effect of controlled drainage (CD) on ammonia volatilization (AV) losses from paddy fields under controlled irrigation (CI) was investigated by managing water table control levels using a lysimeter. Three drainage treatments were implemented, namely, controlled water table depth 1 (CWT1), controlled water table depth 2 (CWT2), and controlled water table depth 3 (CWT3). As the water table co...

The diversity of cultivable methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) in the rice paddy field ecosystem was investigated by combined culture-dependent and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques. Seven microsites of a Japanese rice paddy field were the focus of the study: floodwater, surface soil, bulk soil, rhizosphere soil, root, basal stem of rice plant, and rice stumps of previous harve...

In this study, an algorithm is proposed to determine the duration in a rice crop cycle based on texture analysis. During an observation period in 2013, daily images were acquired from a still camera installed at a paddy field. Given a set of time-series images, the texture analysis is used to classify different stages of the rice growing. Regarding the hypothesis, the rice crop cycle can be sep...

The study is an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of soil health card (SHC) scheme in Andhra Pradesh (AP). Primary survey two selected districts AP state was carried out during 2020. Data set has 120 SHC adopters and 60 non-adopters from Chandragiri, Chittecherla blocks Chittoor Allur, Nellore district Pradesh. evaluated factors affecting adoption AP. Among them, number trainings attended, ...

Plantations in the East Kolaka region are no longer productive, leading to a decline production and even production. The community has made their plantation land more effective increase output. This initiative led plans change use of into paddy fields region, supported by government through construction Ladongi dam. varying views responses from each farmer. study aims understand farmers' reacti...