Comparison of dry seeded and puddled transplanted rainy season rice on the High Ganges River Floodplain of Bangladesh

In the High Ganges River Floodplain of Bangladesh, rice is normally established by puddling and transplanting. This is a costly practice in terms of tillage, labour and irrigation requirement. Dry seeding of rice has the potential to reduce these costs and facilitate timely crop establishment. However, the performance of dry seeded rice (DSR) in other parts of South Asia has been variable in comparison with that of puddled transplanted rice...