Is this methodology different to alternate wetting and drying? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_wetting_and_drying https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt

Is this methodology different to alternate wetting and drying? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_wetting_and_drying https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_wetting_and_drying If not, the practice is already a requirement of the Sustainable Rice Platform Standard: https://winrock.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SRP-Standard-for-Sustainable-Rice-Cultivation-Version-2.1.pdf https://winrock.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SRP-Standard-... The principal constraint to sustainable rice production in many contexts is cost of land leveling, which context dependent, costs about USD 1,000/ha. The status quo assumption is that farmers should finance this cost through debt, which they are reluctant to do because whilst the costs of change are real, the benefits are speculative: yield may go up, water use may go down, but you might just as well be wiped out by the market. So the big challenge here is social: how to derisk the investment for the farmer, and who pays.