This paper aims to explore issues related to destruction of soil nutrients and structure in a rice-wheat double-cropping area caused by over-tillage prior to rice cultivation. A three-year cycle of rotation tillage pattern (RT), consisting of “...
Under global warming, the differences in yield, soil nutrients, and economic benefits between various planting patterns in double-cropping rice areas were compared, and the high-yield and high-efficiency planting patterns that can adapt to climate ch...
The excessive application of chemical fertilizers in rice fields exacerbates soil degradation and poses a threat to food security. Achieving an increase in rice production and minimizing environmental costs are inevitable requirements for achieving s...
Understanding the effect of climate warming and technological progress on crop production systems is crucial for developing climate adaptation strategies. This study presents a methodological framework with which to assess the suitability of the doub...
Dongting Lake Plain is a historic foundation for China’s commodity grain production. We used Landsat images to interpret the rice planting pattern from 1990 to 2020 based on the vegetation index curve and crop time window differences. The resea...
Under the current rice cropping system, excessive nitrogen application has become a major issue that needs to be changed, and nitrogen reduction has become a hot research topic in recent years. The use of optimum planting density is becoming a common...
Rice crop monitoring is an important activity for crop management. This study aimed to develop a phenology-based classification approach for the assessment of rice cropping systems in Mekong Delta, Vietnam, using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrora...
Due to the limited availability of high-quality optical images during the rice growth period in the Lingnan region of China, effectively monitoring the rice planting situation has been a challenge. In this study, we utilized multi-temporal Sentinel-1...
To explore the characteristics of soil microbial community structure diversity for different planting patterns in paddy fields, and to screen out the planting patterns suitable for the promotion of double-cropping rice areas in the middle reaches of...
Nitrogen is an important element that affects the growth and yield of rice obviously. To explore the effects of nitrogen (N) on the growth of double-cropping rice, four consecutive trials were conducted in South China Agricultural University. Four N...
Rice is a staple food in East Asia and Southeast Asia—an area that accounts for more than half of the world’s population, and 11% of its cultivated land. Studies on rice monitoring can provide direct or indirect information on food securi...
A timely and accurate distribution of crop types and cropping patterns provides a crucial reference for the management of agriculture and food security. However, accurately mapping crop types and cropping patterns in subtropical hilly and mountainous...
Climate change is a very serious threat to the agricultural sector and potentially brings new problems to the sustainability of agricultural production systems. This paper aims to know how to improve crop yield by changing the nitrogen application ra...
Paddy rice cropping systems play a vital role in food security, water use, gas emission estimates, and grain yield prediction. Due to alterations in the labor structure and the high cost of paddy rice planting, the paddy rice cropping systems (single...
Rice paddies are one of the main sources of anthropogenic terrestrial CH4. In recent decades, the substitution of single-cropping rice (SCR) for double-crop rice (DCR) has become more common in southern China. However, the concomitant impacts on CH4...
Including green manure into a rice-based double-cropping system has effects on both crop production and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Yet, few studies have considered the trade-off between crop productivity, profitability, and carbon footprint (CF)...
The eddy covariance (EC) technique has been widely used as a micrometeorological tool to measure carbon, water and energy exchanges. When utilizing the EC measurements, it is critical to be aware of the long-term information on source areas. In China...
This study uses satellite imagery and geospatial data to examine the impact of floods over the main planting areas for double-cropping rice and grain crops in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. During summer 2020, a long-lasting 62-day heavy ra...
Improving the yield and quality for tasty rice varieties is a great challenge. In the present study, different nitrogen rates and plant density were utilized to form differential rice populational structures, which were determined to clarify key trai...
The increasing demand for food and rapid population growth have made advanced crop monitoring essential for sustainable agriculture. Deep learning models leveraging multispectral satellite imagery, like Sentinel-2, provide valuable solutions. However...
This study addresses the excessive consumption of river basin water from the Poyang Lake area in China. Consumption of water for irrigation, together with the discharge of agricultural non-point source pollution, is seriously affecting the water qual...
The rising temperatures and changes in precipitation due to climate change have significantly impacted agricultural production. Evaluating the effects of climate change on rice production is crucial for improving rice cultivation techniques and ensur...
Accurate and timely acquisition of cropping intensity and spatial distribution of paddy rice is not only an important basis for monitoring growth and predicting yields, but also for ensuring food security and optimizing the agricultural production ma...
Cadmium (Cd) pollution severely constrains safe rice production and threatens food security. Leveraging Fe–Zn competitive antagonism to mitigate crop Cd accumulation is a green, sustainable remediation strategy. Based on our hypothesis, we prop...
As a traditional agricultural production base in China, the Middle Yangtze Plain (MYP) is a typical region to explore the intensification, large-scale, and agglomeration of agricultural land, and its crop planting situation is sensitive to changes in...
Multiple cropping systems constitute an essential agricultural practice that will ensure food security within the increasing demand of basic cereals as a consequence of global population growth and climate change effects. In this regard, there is a n...
Straw incorporation promotes rice productivity and soil fertility. However, the effects of tillage practice with straw on GHG emissions in paddy fields are not well documented. Under three rice-based cropping systems of China (single rice, double ric...
The “enzyme latch” and “Fe gate” mechanisms are crucial factors influencing soil carbon sequestration capacity, playing a key role in understanding the dynamic changes in soil organic carbon (SOC). However, there is a lack of...
Accurately tracking the changes in rice cropping intensity is a critical requirement for policymakers to formulate reasonable land-use policies. Southern China is a traditional region for rice multi-cropping, yet less is known about its spatial&ndash...
Assessing changes in rice cropping systems is essential for ensuring food security, greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainable water management. However, due to the insufficient availability of images with moderate to high spatial resolution, caused b...
Few studies have focused on the potential impacts of topography on regional crop simulation, which might constrain the development of crop models and lead to inaccurate estimations for food security. In this study, we used remote sensing data to cali...
Tracking winter wheat–summer maize distribution is crucial for the management of agricultural water resources in the water-scarce North China Plain (NCP). However, the spatio-temporal change in planting structure that has occurred during the la...
Assessment of the nitrogen (N) inputs and outputs in croplands would help effectively manage the distribution of N to improve crop growth and environmental sustainability. To better understand the N flow of the main cereal systems in China, soil N ba...
Land use and land cover (LULC) in coastal areas is critical in shaping the ecological systems, regional economy, and livelihood of indigenous communities. This study analyzes LULC changes (LULCC) in Soc Trang Province, Vietnam Mekong Delta, from 2010...
Paddy fields are the main agricultural source of greenhouse gas methane (CH4) emissions. To enhance rice yield, various fertilization practices have been employed in rice paddies. However, the key microbial and abiotic factors driving CH4 emissions u...
The accurate estimation of double-season rice yield is critical for ensuring national food security. To address the limitations of traditional crop models in spatial resolution and accuracy, this study innovatively developed the HASM-APSIM coupled mo...
A large-area map of the spatial distribution of rice is important for grain yield estimations, water management and an understanding of the biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nitrogen. In this paper, we developed the Normalized Weighted Difference...
The production of wheat, maize and rice accounts for more than 90% of the total grain production of China. Assessing the impact of climate warming on suitable planting regions, especially the potential northern planting boundaries of these crops, is...
Harvesting main crop rice with a wide header at a required height can increase its ratoon crop yield by decreasing the stubble rolling rate. However, an increased harvest width brings in more input material in a specific time, causing the size enlarg...
Rice is the most important food crop in Asia, and the timely mapping and monitoring of paddy rice fields subsequently emerged as an important task in the context of food security and modelling of greenhouse gas emissions. Rice growth has a distinct i...
Mapping rice cropping systems is important for grain yield prediction and food security assessments. Both single- and double-season rice are the dominant rice systems in central China. However, because of increasing labor shortages and high costs, th...
Global warming might expand crop growth areas for the prevailing single and double rice cropping systems in Southern China. Based on historical weather and crop data from 1981 to 2015, we evaluated the economic benefit and environmental cost for sing...
Cropping systems in the Level Barind Tract (LBT) of Bangladesh are highly diverse, as Transplanted (T.) Aman and Boro (T. Boro) rice are a common practice in the area. Although. T. Aman is generally cultivated in the rainy (monsoon) season, but the T...
The mapping and monitoring of rice fields on a large scale using medium and high spatial resolution data (<10 m) is essential for efficient agricultural management and food security. However, challenges such as managing large volumes of data, addr...
Rice (Oryza sativa) provides a major food resource worldwide, playing an important role in the global economy. Leptocorisa acuta (Hemiptera: Alydidae), commonly known as the rice seed bug, is a major pest of paddy crops in many rice-growing regions a...
In tropical/subtropical monsoon regions, accurate rice mapping is hampered by the following factors: (1) The frequent occurrence of clouds in such areas during the rice-growing season interferes strongly with optical remote sensing observations; (2)...
As the fundamental operational units of agricultural production, farmers make production decisions based on the principle of household income maximization. This study draws on data from a micro-level survey of rice farmers conducted in Jiangxi Provin...
The North China Plain (NCP) serves as a critical grain-producing region in China, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the nation’s food security. A comprehensive analysis of the carbon footprint (CF) related to the cultivation of major grain cro...
Rice growth monitoring is very important as rice is one of the staple crops of the world. Rice variables as quantitative indicators of rice growth are critical for farming management and yield estimation, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has great...
Ratoon rice, an effective rice cultivation system, allows paddy rice to be harvested twice from the same stubble, playing an important role in ensuring food security and adapting to climate change with its unique growth characteristics. However, ther...
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