Rice Production Worldwide

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities in Rice Production

   • Rajendra Prasad, Yashbir Singh Shivay, Dinesh Kumar

   Pages 1-32

3. Rice Production in China

   • Lixiao Nie, Shaobing Peng

   Pages 33-52

4. Rice Production in India

   • Gulshan Mahajan, Vivek Kumar, Bhagirath S. Chauhan

   Pages 53-91

5. Rice Production in Europe

   • Hansjoerg Kraehmer, Cyrille Thomas, Francesco Vidotto

   Pages 93-116

6. Rice Production in Africa

   • Negussie Zenna, Kalimuthu Senthilkumar, Moussa Sie

   Pages 117-135

7. Rice Production in the Americas

   • Vijay Singh, Shane Zhou, Zahoor Ganie, Bernal Valverde, Luis Avila, Enio Marchesan et al.

   Pages 137-168

8. Rice Production in Australia

   • Ali Ahsan Bajwa, Bhagirath Singh Chauhan

   Pages 169-184

9. Rice Production Systems

   • A. N. Rao, S. P. Wani, M. S. Ramesha, J. K. Ladha

   Pages 185-205

10. Domestication and Development of Rice Cultivars

    • Tahir Hussain Awan, Mostafa Ahmadizadeh, Khawar Jabran, Saima Hashim, Bhagirath Singh Chauhan

    Pages 207-216

11. Fertilizer Management in Rice

    • Bijay-Singh, V. K. Singh

    Pages 217-253

12. Water Management in Rice

    • Avishek Datta, Hayat Ullah, Zannatul Ferdous

    Pages 255-277

13. Insect Herbivores of Rice: Their Natural Regulation and Ecologically Based Management

    • Finbarr G. Horgan

    Pages 279-302

14. Importance and Management of Rice Diseases: A Global Perspective

    • G. S. Laha, Ram Singh, D. Ladhalakshmi, S. Sunder, M. Srinivas Prasad, C. S. Dagar et al.

    Pages 303-360

15. Rice Weeds and Their Management

    • Vivek Kumar, Gulshan Mahajan, Bhagirath S. Chauhan

    Pages 361-392

16. Ecology and Management of Apple Snails in Rice

    • Finbarr G. Horgan

    Pages 393-417

17. Harvesting, Threshing, Processing, and Products of Rice

    • Muhammad Riaz, Tariq Ismail, Saeed Akhtar

    Pages 419-453

18. Rice Physiology

    • Ahmad Nawaz, Muhammad Farooq

    Pages 455-485

19. Role of Biotechnology in Rice Production

    • Akshaya K. Biswal, Md. Shamim, Kevin Cruzado, Gericho Soriano, Abhijit Ghatak, MitchellRey Toleco et al.

    Pages 487-547

20. Back Matter

    Pages 549-563

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This book addresses aspects of rice production in rice-growing areas of the world including origin, history, role in global food security, cropping systems, management practices, production systems, cultivars, as well as fertilizer and pest management. As one of the three most important grain crops that helps to fulfill food needs all across the globe, rice plays a key role in the current and future food security of the world. Currently, no book covers all aspects of rice production in the rice-growing areas of world. This book fills that gap by highlighting the diverse production and management practices as well as the various rice genotypes in the salient, rice-producing areas in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Australia. Further, this text highlights harvesting, threshing, processing, yields and rice products and future research needs. Supplemented with illustrations and tables, this text is essential for students taking courses in agronomy and production systems as well as for agricultural advisers, county agents, extension specialists, and professionals throughout the industry.

• Rice production systems
• fertilizer management in rice
• rice cultivars
• rice pests management
• rice products
• Systematic Botany

• Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia

  Bhagirath S. Chauhan

• Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey

  Khawar Jabran

• Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

  Gulshan Mahajan

Bhagirath Chauhan, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Toowoomba, Australia
Khawar Jabran, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey 


Gulshan Mahajan, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiāna, India

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