This book contains 10 comprehensive chapters, covering information on the importance of rice as food and nutrition, its cultural heritage, trends in area, production, and yield, rice bowls in India, export-import status over years and challenges; water resources and issues and challenges in water management, irrigation sources, irrigated rice area, challenges in water management; rice agro-ecosystems in India, rice cultivation systems; water management strategies and technologies in rice, technological choices under water scarcity, crop diversification options; water management strategies for dry season crops under rice-based systems, adoption of water-saving irrigation methods, land modification and planting methods for irrigation water saving; integrated rice-fish farming systems, global scenario, eco-agriculture- agronomic and aquaculture management, rice-fish and animal co-culture and its impacts; pond-based integrated farming systems, its basic principles, aims, components, advantages, fresh-water pond based farming, water budgeting in aquaculture based integrated farming; high-value aquaculture under integrated farming system, water quality, prawn culture, pearl culture and ornamental fish culture rice-based systems; people’s awareness of ecosystem services, agro-ecosystem features and properties, assessments,  rice ecosystem services, biodiversity, strengthening resilience of rural communities: ecosystem-based adaptation, role of farm women in the management of rice-based ecosystems; water governance and participatory irrigation management for rice-based agro-ecosystems.

Krishna Gopal Mandal, Ph.D., Post-Doc, Director, ICAR-Mahatma Gandhi Integrated Farming Research Institute (MGIFRI), Motihari, Bihar, India

Amod Kumar Thakur, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management (IIWM),

Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Rajeeb Kumar Mohanty, Ph.D., D.Sc., Principal Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management (IIWM), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Souvik Ghosh, Ph.D., Professor, PalliSiksha Bhavan (Institute of Agriculture), Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal, India

Pothula Srinivasa Bramhanand, Ph.D. ,Project Director, Water Technology Centre (WTC), ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India

Chapter1. Rice: Staple Food, Governs the Economy and Challenges in Rice-Based Systems

Chapter2. Water Resources, Issues and Challenges in Water Management

Chapter3. Rice Agro Ecosystems in India

Chapter4. Water Management Strategies and Technologies in Rice

Chapter5. Water Management Strategies for Dry season Crops under Rice based System

Chapter6. Integrated Rice Fish Farming Systems

Chapter7. Pond based Integrated Farming System

Chapter8. High Value Aquaculture under IFS

Chapter9. People’s Awareness of Ecosystem Services

Chapter10. Water Governance and Participatory Irrigation Management for Rice based Agro Ecosystems