An investigation has been undertaken to determine the consequence of using water table control for lowland rice production by growing rice varieties Azucena and IR36 in sand cores under a controlled environment in a series of experiments in which the water table was held at fixed levels. Each experiment had a duration of six weeks and in all, four treatments were used: (a) water table at a depth of 30 cm below the surface, (b) water table at a depth of 15 cm below the surface, (c) saturated sand and (c) flooded sand

Joshua Danso Owusu-Sekyere is a Lecturer in the Agricultural Engineering Department, School of Agriculture, University of Cape Coast. He specialises in Soil and Water Engineering and Irrigation and Drainage Engineering.