This book is aimed at providing a comprehensive text on rice cultivation/production with major emphasis on rice based integrated farming system models, organic farming aspects, alternate cropping, new techniques like SRI, role of biotechnology etc., in an easily understandable manner. This book will also help to enrich the knowledge of young researchers in various fields of agriculture and in particular, agronomy, as well as to the teachers and researchers of the Agricultural Universities/Research Organisations.

Contents:
1. Introduction

2. Rice Botany

3. Rice Growth and Physiology

4. Rice - Ecosystems

5. Rice - Agronomy

6. Rice Tillage and Rice mechanization

7. Rice - Irrigation management

8. Rice - Nutrient Management

9. Rice - Weed Management

10. Rice - Pest and Disease Management

11. Rice - Growth analysis

12. Post Harvest Technologies

13. Rice Products and by-products

14. Soil Samling and soil Testing

15. rice Based Cropping systems and constraints in rice production

16. Hybrid rice

17. Rice based Integrated Farming System

18. Rice under Organic Farming

19. Rice Cultivation

20. Site specific Delta Management system

21. New Methods of Rice cultivation

22. Precision farming

23. rice Breeding and Biotechnology

Appendix

Glossary

References