Translated to Chinese by Jianbo Shen, Department of Plant Nutrition, College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing, China.

This practical guide is available in English, Bahasa Indonesia, Hindi and Chinese, and soon a Bangla version will be available.

The first edition of "Rice: A Practical Guide to Nutrient Management" (ISBN 978-981-05-7949-4) was published in 2002, reprinted in 2003 and in 2005. A second edition was published in 2007. To make the second edition (English version) of the guide as widely accessible as possible, the publishers are selling the guide through their websites and bookstores. They have also made the guide available in electronic format (PDF) from the websites of IRRI and the Southeast Asia Program of IPNI using a Creative Commons "attribution-noncommercial-share alike" license.

For the same reasons, the Chinese version is available on the websites of IPI, IRRI and IPNI.

You can download the guide from the IPI website or order a copy from Dr. Tian Youguo, Editorial Office for China Agrotech Extension and China Plant Protection, National Agro-Tech Extension and Service Centre (NATESC), Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China.

Related publications

• Rice: A Practical Guide to Nutrient Management (2nd edition)
• Rice: A Practical Guide to Nutrient Management (in Hindi)