Puddling is an important process in ________ crop.

🔑 Key Points
Puddling is an important process in rice cultivation.
It is the process of destruction of soil aggregates by mechanical force in soils with excessive moisture content.

📌 Additional Information

Puddling destroys the soil structure, which hampers root penetration and development of succeeding crops in rotation with rice.
Puddling increases the bulk density of the soil.
The equipment used for puddling is called a Puddler.