Description
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. 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, Ludhiana, India 1. Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities in Rice Production Rajendra Prasad, Yashbir Singh Shivay, and Dinesh Kumar 2. Rice Production in China Lixiao Nie and Shaobing Peng 3. Rice Production in India Gulshan Mahajan, Vivek Kumar, Bhagirath S. Chauhan, and G. Mahajan 4. European Rice Hansjoerg Kraehmer, Cyrille Thomas, and Francesco Vidotto 5. Rice Production in Africa Negussie Zenna, Kalimuthu Senthilkumar, and Moussa Sie 6. Rice Production in the Americas Muthu Bagavathiannan, Vijay Singh, Shane Zhou, Zahoor Ganie, Bernal Valverde, Luis Avila, Enio Marchesan, Aldo Merotto, Gonzalo Zorrilla, Nilda Burgos, and Jason Norsworthy 7. Rice Production in Australia Ali Ahsan Bajwa, Bhagirath Singh Chauhan 8. Rice Production Systems A.N. Rao, S.P. Wani, M. S. Ramesha and J.K. Ladha 9. Domestication and Development of Rice Cultivars Tahir Hussain Awana, Mostafa Ahmadizadehb,c, Khawar Jabrand, Saima Hashime, and Bhagirath Singh Chauhan 10. Fertilizer Management in Rice Bijay-Singh and V.K. Singh 11. Water Management in Rice Avishek Datta, Hayat Ullah, and Zannatul Ferdous 12. Insect Herbivores of Rice: their Natural Regulation and Ecologically-Based Management Finbarr G. Horgan 13. Importance and Management of Rice Diseases: A Global Perspective G. S. Laha, Ram Singh, D. Ladhalakshmi, S. Sunder, M. Srinivas Prasad, C. S. Dagar, and V. Ravindra Babu 14. Rice Weeds and their Management Vivek Kumar, Gulshan Mahajan and Bhagirath S. Chauhan 15. Ecology and Management of Apple Snails in Rice Finbarr G. Horgan 16. Harvesting, Threshing, Processing, and Products of Rice Muhammad Riaz, Tariq Ismail, and Saeed Akhtar 17. Rice Physiology Ahmad Nawaz and Muhammad Farooq 18. Role of Biotechnology in Rice Production Akshaya K Biswal, Md. Shamim, Kevin Cruzado, Gericho Soriano, Abhijit Ghatak, MitchellRey Toleco, and Prashant Vikram
