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The term “upland rice” refers to rice cultivated in non-flooded conditions, and it can encompass various specific definitions. While most of the world's rice is grown in paddy fields or wet environments that require significant amount of water, rice itself does not inherently need flooding to thrive.
Rice production is based on its environment, resulting in rain-fed lowland rice, winter rice, deep-water rice, upland rice and irrigate rice. [4] Out of the three distinct seasons, the monsoon season is the main rice production season as rice paddies rely on copious amounts of water. [4]
In the Terai, most rice varieties are cultivated during the rainy season. The principal rice growing season, known as "Berna-Bue Charne", is from June to July when water is sufficient for only a part of the fields; the subsidiary season, known as "Ropai" is from April to September, when there is usually enough water to sustain the cultivation ...
Rice accounted for about 80 percent of cultivated land during the 1989-90 growing season, including 422,000 hectares of lowland wet rice and 223,000 hectares of upland rice. [1] This demonstrates that although there is interplanting of upland crops and fish are found in fields, irrigated rice agriculture remains basically a monoculture system ...
38 million ha (26%) of rice lands are terraced but unirrigated. This cropping system produces about 17% of world rice. [8] While upland rice production systems were the initial target for the perennialization of rice, the perennial habit may prove to have benefits in paddy systems where erosion is less of a concern.
As rice farming becomes more mechanized, traditional wooden farm tools as well as older strains of rice are also preserved. Among the 1,600-plus varieties of rice grown in the delta, a unique variety is the "floating" rice — its several-foot-long stems keep it above rising floodwaters. [2] [5] However, old rice varieties have their special ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday and told the known China hawk that the direction and tone of U.S.-China ties had ...
Meru District has a total size of 1,268.2 square kilometers, with forest reserves covering around 13% (163.7 km 2).An area of approximately 813.5 km 2 (64.1%) is used for agricultural activities, 37.05 km 2 (3%) for grazing, 15 km 2 (0.001%) for pasture/fodder, 203.7 km 2 (16%) is in Arusha National Park, 5.7 km 2 (0.4%) is water bodies, and the remaining area of 44.39 km 2 (3.6%) is ...