130 ABSTRACT Artcle History : Keywords : This study aims to determine the performance of drip irrigaton technology as compared to conventonal farmer’s practce on rice growth and yield, grain quality, and water consumpton. The research was carried out at the Sukamandi Experimental Staton, Subang, West Java in July - October 2019. The test was arranged by a nested randomized block design with 5 replicatons. The main plot was water management with 2 levels: (1) Drip Irrigaton Technology (DIT) and (2) Conventonal Farmer’s Practce (CFP) (fooded conditon) as a comparaton. Subplot was varietes with 4 levels: two hybrid rice (1) Hipa 8 and (2) Hipa 18, upland rice (3) Inpago 11, and irrigated inbred rice (4) Inpari 42. The result showed that yield of DIT not signifcantly diferent to CFP with higher number of tllers per m2. However, it was lower for plant height, tllering ability, grain flling, 1000 grains weight, transpiraton rate, assimilaton rate and stomatal conductance. For grain quality determinaton, DIT gave an increase in the average of grain density and impurites, but decreased in the average percentage of chalky and immature grains. In Hipa 18, DIT was able to produce a higher percentage of head rice. DIT only consumed 3864 m 3 /ha/season water irrigaton compared with average water consumpton in Sukamandi Field Staton which range of 7460-8740 m 3 /ha/season. Drip Irrigaton Technology Performance on Rice Cultvaton Priatna Sasmita 1 , Nurwulan Agustani 2 , Swisci Margaret 2  , Shinta Dewi Ardhiyant 2 , Suprihanto 2 , Yudhistra Nugraha 1 , Suhartni 2 1 Indonesian Center for Food Crops Research and Development, Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Bogor, INDONESIA. 2 Indonesian Center For Rice Research, Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Sukamandi, Subang, INDONESIA. 1. INTRODUCTION The dependence of food security on irrigated rice ecosystems in the long term will face a crisis. This is because producton systems with transplantng and optmum land preparaton required large amount of labor, water and energy, where these resources are becoming increasingly scarce (Kumar & Ladha, 2011). Flooded conditon in irrigated rice is carried out to ensure sufcient water and weed control. This is not only causes water wastage but also causes environmental degradaton, contributes to methane emissions and reduces the fertlizer efciency (Kumar & Ladha, 2011; Singh et al., 2019). The limited resources and the negatve impact caused by the irrigated rice system encourages the improvement of cultvaton techniques especially on water management. Received : 10 March 2022 Received in revised form : 25 March 2022 Accepted : 29 March 2022 Drip irrigaton Rice Water Yield Grain quality  Corresponding Author: swisci.margaret@gmail.com Vol. 11, No. 1 (2022) : 130 - 145 DOI : htp://dx.doi.org/10.23960/jtep-l.v11i1.130-145