Sustainable & Resilient Rice Farming

Editor: Kalaivani Nadarajah
Publisher: UKM Press
ISBN: 9789672511502
Weight: 0.259kg
Pages: 165
Year: 2020
Price: RM30

The content of this book provides a compendium of issues facing rice farmers. It describes the need for a multi-pronged approach to increase the yield potential of rice and how these factors can work towards developing sustainable and resilient production of rice in Malaysia. The content covers topics such as the continuous need to develop high-yielding resistant cultivars, improve farming conditions, better pests and disease management, utilization of genome informatics, and the determination of cost-benefit analysis in rice farming between the conventional and agroecological farming systems to determine the most cost-effective technique which yields higher income to address the issue of poverty amongst farmers. The chapters are contributed by rice researchers at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. While this book is based on studies done mostly in Malaysia, the content is relevant to rice researchers, scientists and breeders worldwide.