Journal
PRECISION AGRICULTURE
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 1633-1652Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-022-09900-8
Keywords
Precision agriculture; Energy efficiency; Greenhouse gas emissions; Sustainability; Laser leveling
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Funding
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) through the CORIGAP project [7F-08412.02]
- Vietnam Sustainable Agricultural Project [12.9097.2-711.00]
- CGIAR-RICE program
- Thai Rice NAMA project [12.9097.2-711.00]
- Thailand-IRRI Rice Program
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Laser-controlled land leveling (LLL) is a sustainable technology that improves water and crop management in rice production, resulting in resource savings and increased yield.
Laser-controlled land leveling (LLL) can help improve rice production's spatial and temporal management, leading to optimized water and crop management. This research resulted in sustainable performance indicators to illustrate that LLL is a sustainable technology for rice production. The assessment was conducted in Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and India. Benefits of LLL include saving land use, water, and agronomic inputs, increasing yield, and decreasing postharvest losses resulting in saving energy of 3.0-6.9 GJ ha(-1) and decreasing emissions by 1151-1486 kg CO2-eq ha(-1). Additionally, LLL application can obtain a net profit of USD 52-84 ha(-1) per rice production season in the countries studied. The result demonstrated that LLL is a sustainable technology as well as strongly supports sustainable rice production. The study would lead to better adoption of this technology through its evidence-based promotion.
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