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  2. Kharif crop - Wikipedia

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    Rice is the most important Kharif crop of India. It is grown in rain-fed areas with hot and humid climates, especially the eastern and southern parts of India. Rice requires a temperature of 16–20 °C (61–68 °F) during the growing season and 18–32 °C (64–90 °F) during ripening.

  3. List of countries by rice production - Wikipedia

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    Rice production by country (2019) This is a list of countries by rice production in 2022 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. The total world rice production for 2022 was 776,461,457 [1] metric tonnes. In 1961, the total world production was 216 million tonnes.

  4. Pusa Basmati 1121 - Wikipedia

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    This variety of basmati rice was developed by Padma Shri awardee Dr Vijaipal Singh at Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. It was released for commercial cultivation in Kharif season of 2003 as Pusa 1121 (Pusa Sugandh 4). By 2007, the variety has become widely popular with farmers, and was renamed as Pusa Basmati 1121 in 2008.

  5. Rice production in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Grains of rice Rice production in Texas began in 1853 in southeast Texas. By 1903, the acres of cultivated rice in Texas was second only to Louisiana and together accounted for 99 percent of rice production in United States. While other states have surpassed Texas in rice production, it remains a significant Texas crop into the foreseeable future.

  6. Rice - Wikipedia

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    Rice plant (Oryza sativa) with branched panicles containing many grains on each stem Rice grains of different varieties at the International Rice Research Institute. Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa.

  7. Rice production in India - Wikipedia

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    Rice production in India is an important part of the economy of India. [1] Dry paddy fields in South India Mature rice, Thrissur, Kerala. India is the world's second-largest producer of rice, and the largest exporter of rice in the world. [2] Production increased from 53.6 million tons in FY 1980 [1] to 120 million tons in FY2020-21. [3] Paddy ...

  8. Ambemohar - Wikipedia

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    Ambemohar is low-yielding compared to other varieties of rice, primarily because it is susceptible to diseases. The hybrid called Indrayani with ambemohar parentage was released in 1987. [6] It was developed by Rice Research Centre near Lonavala. [7] Indrayani has also been modified to form new varieties of rice such as Phule Maval and Phule ...

  9. History of rice cultivation - Wikipedia

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    Even before this Australia's rice production greatly exceeded local needs, [91] and rice exports to Japan have become a major source of foreign currency. Above-average rainfall from the 1950s to the middle 1990s [ 93 ] encouraged the expansion of the Riverina rice industry, but its prodigious water use in a practically waterless region began to ...