• Irrigation only to moist the soil in the early period of 10 days
• Restoring irrigation to a maximum depth of 2.5cm after development of hairline cracks in the soil until panicle initiation stage
• Increasing irrigation depth to 5.0cm after PI one day after disappearance of ponded water
• Placing of water pipe as safe alternate wetting and drying irrigation (AWDI) reduces the total number of irrigation given to rice crop.

Alternate wetting and drying (irrigate until hairline crack develop)