Water management practices such as leveling, bunding, making canals, siting inlets and outlets properly, are vital to ensuring efficient water supply and distribution. These, however, vary between irrigated and rain fed rice
Kasamalidwe kamadzi monga kumwaza dothi, kukwezera mizere, kupanga ngalande, kuyika malo olowera ndi otulukira madzi, ndi zofunukira kwambiri poonetsetsa kuti madzi  akupezeka komanso kufikira mbewu zonse mokwanira. Izi komabe zimasiyana pakati pa mpunga wamthilira ndi wamvula