Trip report – ‘Water-Wise Rice Production’

Abstract

The workshop was jointly organised by IRRI (B Bouman and TP Tuong) and Plant Research International of Wageningen University and Research Centre (P Bindraban and H Hengsdijk). The workshop dealt with the problems caused by water shortage in rice production in Asia, and was represented by delegates from Water Workgroup of the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium, Water-Less Rice Project, Growing More Rice With Less Water, Groundcover Rice Production Systems and the Rice-Wheat Consortium. My attendance was encouraged and funded by the CRC as the workshop theme was particularly relevant to my project within Program 1 – 1204: ‘Strategies for improving the water use (efficiency) of rice. I was invited to present a paper titled ‘Water management of rice in southern New South Wales, Australia’.