Question

What are the differences between water logging and water lodging?

Answer 1

Hint: Both the terms-water logging and water lodging are detrimental for the crops, and both refer to the accumulation of excess water in the roots of the plants which ultimately lead to the deaths of the plant.
The main difference is only the ‘nature of occurring’.

Complete answer:
Water logging refers to that action where excess water is supplied/accumulated to the field. Since the soil cannot absorb water beyond a particular capacity (called saturation point), the excess water gets accumulated on the roots of the plants. This ultimately damages the roots since they fall short of oxygen supply, and the plant dies.
Sometimes, heavy rainfall and untimely high gusty winds (during storms and cyclones) may result in falling down the erect crops in their growing phase. The crops get laid down to the substratum. Moreover, due to such heavy rainfalls, water logging occurs. This particular phenomenon is known as water lodging.
Thus, both the two phenomena- water logging and water lodging damages the crops. One occurs due to accumulation of water in the field; and, in the other, the crops fall in their maturation phase due to untimely rains and winds.

Note:
In both phenomena, water accumulates in the surrounding of the plant, the soil cannot absorb the water, which results in cutting down the oxygen supply to the roots and submerged plants of the plant. The only main difference is that water logging occurs when water is supplied or water is accumulated in the field (here the plants do not fall) and water lodging occurs during stormy conditions where the plants get laid off along with accumulation of water.