Over 200 articles on rice crop management (rice agronomy) and rice crop improvement (plant breeding, including rice biotechnology) were received from rice scientists and researchers worldwide. Two papers, one from China and one from Japan, won the award

These facilities are available in various sectors of activity, and they operate differently from one sector to the next.

Rice cultivation (area cultivated in hectares)

Rice is grown in rainy regions.

Of this, about 638,000 acres were under the major crops, tea, rubber, coconut and paddy.

My father grows rice.

The Rice Cultivators' Association of Uruguay published a special issue on El Arroz en el Mundo to commemorate the Year.

In that country, the ratio between incomes and costs of aquaculture in ponds was almost 33 per cent higher than that of a double crop system combining aquaculture and rice cultivation.

First, some types of activities do not exist in all Parties (e.g. rice cultivation or coal mining).

Rice seeds were distributed to 36,000 farmers for the main planting season (April May) of 1998.

Until then, agricultural workers, the majority of them paddy farmers, had no tangible measure by way of old age social protection.

Except in the case of green gram, the cultivation of all crops including paddy is decreasing.

Thus, serious drought in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand can be expected to delay rice planting operations and thus lead to a switch to early maturing but lower yielding varieties.

Possible examples in the agricultural sector include improved manure management, reduction of enteric fermentation, improved fertilizer usage or improved water management in rice cultivation.

AMSTERDAM In the Mekong Delta, farmers obtain 6 7 tons of rice per hectare in dry seasons and 4 5 tons per hectare in wet seasons, using fast maturing rice varieties that allow up to three consecutive yields annually. By contrast, West African rice farmers harvest only 1.5 tons per hectare of traditional upland rice annually, while other cereals yield no more than one ton a figure comparable to yields in medieval Europe.

阿姆斯特丹 在湄公河三角洲 农民在旱季能收获6 7吨的水稻公顷产量 雨季则为4 5吨 使用快速成熟稻种 每年可以收获三季 相反 西非稻农种植传统旱稻每年只能收获1.5吨的公顷产量 其他谷类产量更是不到一吨 与欧洲中世纪产量水平相当

Vegetable and fruit growing

Paddy and cereals

49. The objective of the study was to evaluate the capabilities of ERS 1 SAR data for monitoring rice planting acreage and its growth.

The main rural women apos s projects implemented with small scale loans have been mechanized rice planting, fish farming and the planting of 1,243 acres of vegetables and 400 acres of tubers.

This implied that the bulk of the paddy lands in the country were owned by cultivators.

A focus on sustainable rice cultivation was becoming increasingly important in view of the growth in global population and the corresponding escalation in the demand for rice.

(e) In the Near East, the development of hybrid rice and water efficient rice integrated crop management systems.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is operating in 14 counties and has distributed seed rice and agricultural tools to 13,000 farmers to increase rice production.

The third plant is money plant, and this is again a very common plant preferably grows in hydroponics.

And every year, 99.9 percent of the paddy is transplanted manually.

In mid November 1997, a project aimed at increasing rice cultivation in Pool Malebo (Kinshasa) was launched 60 per cent of the participants are women heads of households.

Sometimes in rice we found incredible increases in yield when you mix different varieties of rice side by side.

IRRI International Rice Research Institute

He enumerated coping strategies, such as polyculture, rainwater harvesting, migration, and afforestation.

Proper cultivation and sustainable production of rice would significantly reduce poverty and environmental damage but the growth in production was declining owing to competing uses of land and water resources, reduced economic returns, high rates of post harvest losses, increasing labour shortages, institutional limitations and environmental pollution.

According to provisional figures from a government survey on the poppy crop in the Dir district and other poppy growing areas of the North West Frontier Province, the level of opium poppy cultivation in the growing season 1995 96 decreased by about 75 per cent compared with that in the growing season 1994 95.

He's growing all his own fruit, and that's fantastic.

(b) In Asia and the Pacific, the development of hybrid rice, rice biotechnology and rice integrated crop management systems as well as the diversification of the mono rice systems

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Women were taught how to plan and harvest a variety of vegetables in Ghana donated hundreds of pounds of rice in countries in Africa.

It's rain. Africa is fertile. They can grow the crops.

In 2003, coca bush cultivation was less than half of its level in 1994.

This is called mud wrestling in the rice fields.

In Malaysia, farmers' associations celebrated the Year with the launching of the 10 Tonne Club for rice farmers, while the Myanmar International Year of Rice Committee published three books Varieties of Rice, Rice Culture and Rice Research Activities.

In addition, 330 on farm demonstrations on improved rice production techniques were carried out by the Egyptian Rice Programme in rice producing areas of the country.

This man was your wartime buddy, an ordinary rice farmer who helped you blow up bridges.

In recognition of the challenges of global rice production, FAO and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) joined forces in 1999 to focus international attention on the rice industry and its role in achieving global food security.

Likewise, year round access to potable water allowed the Xade population to experiment with cultivation.

NERICA is a new rice type developed for WARDA especially for low input rice production in Africa.

This is extraordinary. Because rice get this rice is known to have 38 thousand genes.