Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2025, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (2): 257-268.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20240079

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Effect of irrigation and planting methods on the yield and quality of double-cropping rice

WAN Shaoyuan1(), LIU Xianbo1,2, CAI Shuo1,*(), SHI Hong1,2, CHENG Jie1   

  1. 1. Jiangxi Irrigation Experiment Central Station, Nanchang 330201, China
    2. School of Water Resources & Environmental Engineering, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, China
  • Received:2024-01-16 Online:2025-02-25 Published:2025-03-20
  • Contact: CAI Shuo

Abstract:

In the present study, double cropping rice was selected as the study object, a field experiment was carried out with four planting methods and two irrigation methods. The four panting methods were hand-planting, mechanical transplanting, seedling throwing and direct seeding, respectively, and the two irrigation methods were flooding irrigation and intermittent irrigation. The effects of different treatments with combinations of planting method and irrigation method were compared on the water use efficiency, yield and rice quality of double cropping rice. It was shown that the water consumption of early rice and late rice under intermittent irrigation was significantly (P<0.05) decreased than that under flooding irrigation with the same planting method, yet the yield of early rice and late rice was increased by 0.79%-2.94%. With the same irrigation method, the lowest yield of both early rice and late rice was found under the direct seeding method, which was significantly lower than the others. Under the same planting method, the milling quality of early rice and late rice with intermittent irrigation was better than that with flooding irrigation. Under the same irrigation method, the head rice rate of direct seeding early rice and late rice was significantly poorer than those with other planting methods. Overall, compared with the flooding irrigation, intermittent irrigation could increase the yield of early rice and late rice, decrease the water consumption, enhance the water use efficiency, improve the milling quality of rice. Compared with transplanting, direct seeding would lower the rice yield and quality of late rice. By comparison, the combination of hand-planting with intermittent irrigation exhibited good effect on water conservation, yield increase, and high quality of double cropping rice.

Key words: double-cropping rice, irrigation method, planting method, yield, rice quality, water use efficiency

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