Rice is traditionally cultivated by transplantation by farmers in water. However there is an increasing scarcity of water in a time of climate change. Moreover, transplanting in water is costly because many workers are needed. Therefore dry direct-seeded rice cultivation appears as a promising alternative. Liu et al. have compared dry direct-seeded rice and transplanted-flooded rice. They propose that dry direct-seeded rice should successfully replace transplanted rice in Central China due to less water requirement, identical grain yield and higher resource use efficiency.
