Table 6 Agricultural practices of farmers in function of rice production systems.
Practices | Modalities | Rainfed lowland (N = 381) | Rainfed upland (N = 14) | Irrigated lowland (N = 73) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Soil labour | Manual | 290 | 13 | 48 |
Plough | 66 | 1 | 23 | |
Tractors | 39 | 3 | 3 | |
Type of produced rice | Local | 79 | 11 | 16 |
Improved | 302 | 3 | 57 | |
Type of sowing | Sowing in pockets | 260 | 13 | 8 |
Nursery transplantation | 130 | 2 | 71 | |
Broadcast sowing | 8 | – | – | |
Weed management | Manual | 273 | 7 | 57 |
Herbicide | 270 | 11 | 51 | |
Soil fertility management | Chemical fertilizers | 290 | 4 | 67 |
Organic fertilizers | 1 | – | – | |
No fertilizer | 90 | 10 | 6 | |
Insect pest management | Chemical pesticides | 28 | – | 21 |
No management | 353 | 14 | 52 |
