How much water does rice really need? (November 1996)

Humphreys, E., Meyer, W.S.

1996

This IREC Farmer Newsletter article present information on how much water rice needs. The article covers areas including evaporation from flooded rice, amount of water that is evaporated from flood rice paddocks, evapotranspiration vary from season to season, evapotranspirtaion vary between location of rice growing areas, rainfall, effective rainfall, rice irrigation requirements in an average season, the amount of water stored in soil, rice water use targets and seasonal adjustments of rice water use targets.