How sustainable are intensive irrigated rice cropping systems?

The
sustainability of highly intensive irrigated rice cropping systems is of great
importance worldwide, particularly in the context of Rio+20.



With German support, long-term fertility experiments (LTFEs) for intensive rice-based irrigated
systems in the Senegal River valley were established at AfricaRice’s research
farms in the Senegal River delta and middle valley in 1991 and these trials