This practice also enables the farmers to undertake intercultural operations such as application of fertilizers and pesticides. This practice yields an additional two bags of rice per acre. Indigenous rice weed management strategies are those strategies adopted by farmers to minimize the growth of weeds in rice fields. This irrigation enables the weed seeds to germinate. They store the water for three-four days.
Some farmers wait even for one week.
The water slowly dries up leaving the weeds. Then they plough the fields by turning the soil upside down. Thus, the germinated weeds are killed. Again, they irrigate the nursery area and repeat the entire practice. Farmers claim that meticulous practice of alternative wetting and drying of rice nurseries helps them to minimize weeding.