Lai has come up with a number of methods to bring down this number, such as increasing the use of marsh gas recycling equipment, reducing the length of time of inundation of paddy land, improving fertilizer-use techniques, and even developing new strains of rice that would produce lower amounts of methane.
賴朝明也歸納出許多減量辦法，比如增加沼氣回收設備、減少水田浸水時間、改進施肥技術、甚至培育排放低甲烷的水稻新品種等方式，在降低甲烷的同時，相對也能提高農業生產效率。