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By 2021, rice production (palay) in the Philippines reached 20.0 million metric tons (MMT), a 3.5% increase from 2020, despite rice imports rising to 2.9 MMT. The RTL has significantly influenced the management of inflation in the rice sector since its implementation and serves as an approach for potential reforms in the agricultural sector of ...
However, the Ratsiraka regime failed to restore self-sufficiency in rice production (estimated at between 2.8 million to 3.0 million tons), and rice imports rose again in 1990. In 1992 rice production occupied about two-thirds of the cultivated area and produced 40 percent of total agricultural income, including fishing , which was next with 19 ...
During 2008, the Vietnam Food Association, had set a target of record production of 36.5 million tonnes of rice. [5] However, during 2010 rice industry is under serious threat due to a heat wave of above 35 °C (95 °F) for at least three consecutive months as of March, 2010 indicating a likely drop in rice production. [1] [2]
Rice terraces in Yunnan, China. Rice production in China is the amount of rice planted, grown, and harvested for consumption in the mainland of China. It is an important part of the national economy, [3] where it is the world's largest producer of rice, making up 30% of global rice production. [3] It produces the highest rice yields in Asia, at ...
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 [ 1 ] for 2022 was 776,461,457 [ 2 ] metric tonnes .
[5] Rice grains can be planted directly into the field where they will grow, or seedlings can be grown in a seedbed and transplanted into the field. Direct seeding needs some 60 to 80 kg of grain per hectare, while transplanting needs less, around 40 kg per hectare, but requires far more labour. [6] Most rice in Asia is transplanted by hand.
Economic value. Agriculture accounts for more than half of Sierra Leone's GDP, 58.5% in 2007. [1] It is the largest employer, with 80 percent of the population working in the sector [4] and two thirds of the population involved in subsistence agriculture. [2] In 2007 the sector grew by 14 percent, led by crops and by five percent in 2008. [1]
Rice production in Myanmar accounts for approximately 43% of total agricultural production in the country, making it the seventh largest producer of rice in the world. [1] Out of 67.6 million hectares of land, 12.8 million are used for cultivation. [1] In 2019 alone, Myanmar accounted for 13,300 million metric tons of milled rice production.