The study aims to assess the surface water quality in Hau Giang province in 2021 at 44 locations (with a frequency of 5 times per year) using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Cluster Analysis (CA) and GIS. Surface water quality is compared with the national technical regulation on surface...

Rational water and fertilizer management approaches and technologies could improve water use efficiency and fertilizer use efficiency in paddy rice cultivation. A promising water-conserving technology for paddy rice farming is the alternate wetting and drying irrigation system, established by the International Rice Research Institute. However, the strategy has still not been widely adopted, because water level measurement is challenging work and sometimes leads to a decrease in the rice yield. For the easy implementation of alternate wetting and drying among farmers, we analyzed a dataset obtained from a farmer’s water management study carried out over a three-year period with three cropping seasons at six locations (n = 82) in An Giang Province, Southern Vietnam. We observed a significant relationship between specific water level management and the rice yield and greenhouse gas emissions during different growth periods. The average water level during the crop period was an important factor in increasing the rice yield and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The average water level at 2 days after nitrogen fertilization also showed a potential to increase the rice yield. The greenhouse gas emissions were reduced when the number of days of non-flooded soil use was increased by 1 day during the crop period. The results offer insights demonstrating that farmers’ implementation of multiple drainage during whole crop period and nitrogen fertilization period has the potential to contribute to both the rice yield increase and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from rice cultivation.

Water hyacinth (WH) biomass is one of the popular materials in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, a potential substrate for biogas production. The effectiveness of utilizing WH for producing biogas under anaerobic digestion was demonstrated in the previous studies, but the research was focused on the...

Sử dụng phương pháp tổng quan tài liệu, bài viết này tổng hợp và phân tích các thông tin về phát thải khí nhà kính (KNK), lợi ích khi áp dụng kỹ thuật ngập khô xen kẻ (AWD) và tiềm năng nhân rộng AWD trong canh tác lúa ở Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (ĐBSCL).Hệ số phát thải khí mêtan (CH4) ở ĐBSCL là 1,92kg/ha/ngày, cao hơn hệ số phát thải ở Đông Nam Á và toàn cầu. AWD làm giảm lượng khí thải CH4 hàng năm (-51%) so với canh tác truyền thống (CF). AWD theo nông dân (AWDF) làm giảm CH4 đáng kể (35%) so với các ruộng CF. AWD và AWDF đều có năng suất cao hơn so với CF. Rào cản lớn cho áp dụng AWD là hệ thống tưới tiêu và phương pháp quan trắc mực nước, dẫn đến chưa thể ban hành các chính sách, thể chế về AWD cho toàn vùng ĐBSCL. Sử dụng IoT là phương pháp tiện ích trong quản lý nước cho người dân...