Feasibility Study Of Rice Essay

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CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the most important and extensively cultivated food crop that has been referred as “Global Grain” because of its use as prime staple food in about 100 countries of the world. Its cultivation is of immense importance to food security of Asia, where > 90 % of the global rice is produced and consumed. Rice provides 32-59% of the dietary energy and 25-44% of the dietary protein in 39 countries. In India, it accounts for >40% of food grain production, providing direct employment to 70% people in rural areas (New Delhi, 2012). Rice is the most consumed cereal grain in the world, constituting the dietary staple food for more than half of the planets human population. Globally, rice is the second most widely consumed cereal next to wheat and it has occupied an area of 163.2 million hectares, with a total production of 719.7 million tonnes (Anonymous, 2014a). Rice provides about two-third of the calorie intake for more than two billion people in Asia and a third of the calorie intake of nearly one billion people in Africa and Latin America (Shastry et al., 2000). Hence, there is a need to increase the productivity of rice. In India, rice occupies an area of 43.95 million hectare with an average production of 106.29 million tonnes with productivity of 2424 kg ha-1, though increasing marginally, but is …show more content…

with the share in rice production in india 3.39% with production 7.58 million tonnes in CG and productivity 1532 Kg/hac. (IGKV, Raipur, 2013) which is lower than national average. In kharif season it occupies an area of around 3.68 million hectares with production of 8.20 million tonnes which contributes 8.65 and 6.30% to all India, respectively and productivity of 2020 kg ha-1 in 2013-14 (Anonymous 2015). Productivity with SRI method are 6 to7 tonnes of rice/hac. Compare to usual yields of 2 to 4 tonnes/hac.with farmers

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