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  2. 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 ...

  3. History of rice cultivation - Wikipedia

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    Rice was one of the earliest crops planted in Australia by British settlers, who had experience with rice plantations in the Americas and India. Although attempts to grow rice in the well-watered north of Australia have been made for many years, they have consistently failed because of inherent iron and manganese toxicities in the soils and ...

  4. Paddy field - Wikipedia

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    Banaue Rice Terraces of Luzon, Philippines, carved into steep mountainsides Taro fields (loʻi) in Hanalei Valley, Kaua'i, Hawaii Paddy field placed under the valley of Madiun, Indonesia Farmers planting rice in Cambodia. A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro.

  5. Matta rice - Wikipedia

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    Kerala matta rice is grown in Kerala, Karnataka in southern India and in northern Sri Lanka.Matta rice gives Kerala farmers a premium of Indian Rs. 300 for 500 kg of paddy.A three-year ban on the export of matta rice was partially lifted in February 2011, allowing 25,000 tonnes to be exported in 2011.

  6. India cuts rice exports, triggering panic-buying of food ...

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    Non-Basmati white rice constitutes about a fourth of the rice exported by India. ... Roa says she and others will just have to adapt by purchasing rice grown in the United States or imported from ...

  7. History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Rice - Wikipedia

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    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). ... China consumed 154 million tonnes of rice, India consumed ...

  9. 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.