Rice Production Worldwide

Bhagirath S. Chauhan, Khawar Jabran, Gulshan Mahajan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 563 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-83755-0 (ISBN)

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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

Current status, challenges, and opportunities in rice production.- Rice production in China.- Rice production in India.- European rice.- Rice production in Africa.- Rice production in the Americas.- Rice production in Australia.- Rice production systems.- Domestication and development of rice cultivars.- Fertilizer management in rice.- Water management in rice.- Insect herbivores of rice: their natural regulation and ecologically-based management.- Importance and management of rice diseases: a global perspective.- Rice weeds and their management.- Ecology and management of apple snails in rice.- Harvesting, threshing, processing, and products of rice.- Rice physiology.- Role of biotechnology in rice production.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 563 p. 56 illus., 39 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	866 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
Schlagworte	fertilizer management in rice • rice cultivars • rice pests management • Rice production systems • Rice Products • systematic botany
ISBN-10	3-319-83755-9 / 3319837559
ISBN-13	978-3-319-83755-0 / 9783319837550
Zustand	Neuware