| Summary: | A field experiment was conducted at the Faculty of Sustainable Agriculture field, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, campus Sandakan, Sabah to study the effect of effective microorganisms on the growth performance of upland rice under drought condition. In this experiment, the experimental design used was 'Completely Randomized Design' (CRD), and there are four treatments used which are paddy crop planted in Silabukan soil with irrigated condition, paddy crop planted in Silabukan were soil treated with effective microorganisms under irrigated condition, paddy crop planted in Silabukan soil were treated with effective microorganisms under stress condition and lastly paddy crop that were planted in Silabukan soil without effective microorganisms and under stress condition. All of these treatments have five replicates. The parameters measured were the plant height, number of tiller, number of active tiller, soil pH, chlorophyll content, and shoot dry weight. Effective microorganism application was found to show the highest mean for all parameters except for the number of active tiller of the upland rice Paddy variety Mutiara. However, in general the application of effective microorganisms did not have significant effect for all parameters taken.
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