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Showcase 1: Double cropping rice-fallow systems in South Asia

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Publication date
30/05/2008
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Working Papers & Briefs
Focus Region:
Asia and the Pacific
Focus Topic:
Agricultural Value Chains / Agri-Businesses
Source
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/ResearchIntoUse/RIU_Showcase_1_Double_cropping_rice_fallow.pdf
Author
RIU

This series of two-page brief highlights some of the new technologies and processes available, in order to inspire practitioners and policy-makers to put them to use. This one introduces a new cropping system which means that
farmers can now grow crops in the dry season as well. This means two crops a year instead of only one, doubling production from the same bit of land.