High Yielding, Sustainable Aerobic Rice
Deakin’s Aerobic Rice
We believe that new technologies and irrigation methods have the ability to drive rice production to a new level worldwide. Rice is the most important food crop world wide.
Working with commercial farmers, Deakin University has pioneered production methods using new technologies and approaches to growing aerobic rice in Australia that have the ability to achieve yields as high as traditionally grown ponded rice with significantly less irrigation water.
Deakin’s aerobic rice growing approaches result in lower water use and much higher water use productivity. Benefiting growers and industry.
Sustainability driven by innovation
Changing water availability impacts all irrigation industries and during these times industries need tools and techniques that allow adaptation to deal with these changes. Aerobic rice is a new approach to increasing drought resilience in the rice industry and has been developed to meet the needs of rice growers to adapt to these challenges in realistic and profitable ways.
Our approach to aerobic rice growing is to aim to achieve yields matching traditional ponded water rice yields, while using less water. This is achieved through the use of low cost irrigation automation technologies and alternative irrigation methods and strategies.
Initial commercial scale results to date have shown that aerobic rice yields can match traditional ponded rice yields using less water. Yields over 15 t/ha have been achieved with aerobic rice irrigation practices using the Matilda (V071) rice variety.
Acknowledgements
Commercial scale production and interest in aerobic rice is rapidly growing. This website and associated RD&E has been developed through funding by an Australian Federal Government Future Drought Fund Innovation project.
Irrigation Automation for Aerobic Rice
Automation and aerobic rice go hand in hand together. When growing aerobic rice, automation takes care of any increases in labour associated with irrigation management. All of the Deakin’s high yielding aerobic rice has been grown using Deakin’s on-farm automation approaches which use off the shelf automation components which can be purchased by the grower and constructed.
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Deakin CeRRF is an applied research team based in Griffith, NSW, Australia specializing in RD&E in Irrigation, Agricultural Engineering, Irrigation Science, Smart Sensing, AI and sustainability of irrigated agriculture. Follow our research on aerobic rice at the link below.
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