Projeto 10 – Management strategies to increase productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice fields growth in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: developments and new challenges

Autores: Valmir Gaedke Menezes, Ibanor Anghioni, Paulo Regis Ferreira da Silva, Vera Regina Mussoi Macedo, Clairton Petry, Daniel dos Santos Grohs, Thais Fernanda Stella de Freitas, Antonio de Leon Valente

Descrição: Projeto 10 emerged from the evidence that was a considerable difference between the potential of productivity and what used to be produced in rice crops in the State of Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil, in the beginning of the first decade of this century. The following step was to set the most important agronomical practices in the production process. The implementation of the Project together with the producers has become in an action of technology diffusion, taken as priority by the Rice Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (IRGA).