rice

At varying points of time on two continents, particularly
from 8500 BC to 1000 BC, a wild strain of grass was
domesticated. Today, we know the evolved form of that
grass as rice!


What is Rice?

o Rice is a grain belonging to the grass family.

o Rice refers to two species (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima) of grass, native to tropical and subtropical southeastern .

o Rice is rich in genetic diversity, with thousands of varieties grown throughout the world.

IN INDIA:-
o Rice is one of the important cereal food crop of India. Rice contributes about 43% of total food grain production and 46% of total cereal production in the country. It continues to play vital role in the national exports.

o The percentage share of agriculture export in total national export was 18.25, whereas the percentage share of rice export in total agriculture export was 24.62 during 1998-99. Thus, rice export contributes nearly 25% of total agriculture export from the country.