Rice is a staple food for more than half the world’s population. It grows best in warm, wet climates and is usually cultivated in flooded fields called paddies.

Uses:

Main food staple (boiled, steamed, or processed into flour)
Used in making rice wine, rice bran oil, and rice starch
Animal feed (broken rice and husk by-products)

Production Process:

Land preparation: Flooding and leveling the fields
Planting: Either by direct seeding or transplanting seedlings
Water management: Continuous flooding during most of the growing period
Harvesting: When grains turn golden brown and hard
Processing: Threshing, drying, milling, and packaging

Economic Importance:

Provides employment for millions of farmers
Key export commodity for many Asian and African countries
Contributes significantly to national food security

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