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