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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 ...
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] [2] metric tonnes. In 1961, the total world production was 216 million tonnes.
The rice plant can grow to over 1 m (3 ft) tall; if in deep water, it can reach a length of 5 m (16 ft). A single plant may have several leafy stems or tillers.The upright stem is jointed with nodes along its length; a long slender leaf arises from each node. [1]
White basmati rice cooked with Burmese fish mint. Basmati (pronounced ['bɑːsmət̪iː]) is a variety of long, slender-grained aromatic rice which originates from the Indian subcontinent, mainly in the regions of Punjab, Haryana, Sindh and many other states and provinces of India and Pakistan. [2]
Compared to conventional rice cultivation methods used in the country at the time the combined approach reduced the amount of labour and water required for the harvest by 70% while the resulting grain yield was on average 12T ha−1 about three times the usual yield in the region. [19] Beyond rice, SRI has been adapted successfully to other ...
Rice was cultivated in the Indus Valley civilisation. [36] Agricultural activity during the second millennium BC included rice cultivation in the Kashmir and Harrappan regions. [35] Mixed farming was the basis of the Indus valley economy. [36] Denis J. Murphy (2007) details the spread of cultivated rice from India into South-east Asia: [37]
It has become one of the world's largest supplier of rice, cotton, sugar and wheat. India exported around 2 million metric tonnes of wheat and 2.1 million metric tonnes of rice in 2011 to Africa, Nepal, Bangladesh and other regions around the world. [23] Aquaculture and catch fishery is among the fastest growing industries in India. Between ...
The history of rice cultivation is an interdisciplinary subject that studies archaeological and documentary evidence to explain how rice was first domesticated and cultivated by humans, the spread of cultivation to different regions of the planet, and the technological changes that have impacted cultivation over time.