Water recycling system: sustainable water management approach for paddy production
Muhammad Haniff Ahmad1, Teoh, Chin Chuang2, Eddy Herman Sharu3, Mohd Khusairy Khadzir4, Mohd Shahril Shah Mohamad Ghazali5, Saifulizan Mat Nor6, Muhammad Azamuddin Arshad7.
Water resources have been impacted by current climate change, as well as increased demands from both traditional and new water users, including municipal, industrial, and agricultural sectors. Thus, recycling water for irrigation to ensure seed production has a significant impact on food security sustainability. In this study, a water recycling system was developed and tested in order to sustain seed production. The study was carried out over eight seasons, from 2014 to 2019, at the Rice Centre of Excellence (CoE) research plot in MARDI Seberang Perai. The system included irrigation and water collection facilities to be reused. This approach was taken to sustain water resources and ensure that paddy cultivation was not affected by weather changes. Data on rainfall and irrigation flow were collected for each season. The field water depth was monitored every two days before irrigation was applied. This system proved that the total water saving for each season studied ranged from 20 to 32 percent, depending on the intensity of the rainfall. More than 3.5 tonnes per hectare of fragrance paddy seed were successfully produced as a result of this study for research and development purposes.
Affiliation:
- MARDI Seberang Perai, Malaysia
- Malaysian Agricultural and Research Development Institute (MARDI), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Malaysian Agricultural and Research Development Institute (MARDI), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
- MARDI Seberang Perai, Malaysia
- MARDI Seberang Perai, Malaysia
- MARDI Seberang Perai, Malaysia
- MARDI Seberang Perai, Malaysia
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