Puddling is a most common method of land preparation for transplanting of rice seedlings and for controlling weeds and reducing leaching of water and nutrients (De Datta and Craswell, 1982; Sharma and De Datta, 1985).
Puddling is amost common method of land preparation for transplanting of riceseedlings and for controlling weeds and reducing leaching of waterand nutrients (De Datta and Craswell, 1982; Sharma and De Datta,1985).