agricultural history
ancient rice cultivation practices
Carolina Rice
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cereal crop domestication
Chosun Dynasty
Cogon Grass
Cultivated Rice
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Glutinous Rice
historical agronomy
Indica Rice
Irrigated Rice
Japonica Rice
Middle Lower Yangtze River
Paddy Field
plant genetics
Red Rice
Rice Cultivation
Rice Exports
Rice Grains
Rice Industry
Rice Production
Rice Varieties
Si Te
Sri LANKA
Tamil Nadu
Weedy Rice
Wild Rice
World Rice Market
Yangtze
Yangtze River
Product details
- ISBN 9781578086801
- Weight: 1250g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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During the last nine millennia or so, man has improved the rice plant, increased its productivity and has found various uses of its parts. The story of rice differs from region to region and has been different in different periods of time. There was a time when tax was collected in the form of rice in Japan, the Southeast Asian kingdoms created hydraulic feats for its cultivation and Ottoman armies advanced with rice as their ration. In recent years, there have been riots due to scarcity of rice and also international efforts to produce enough rice to avoid hunger. The book provides an interesting reading of all such events in the course of its 9000 years long history.
S. D. Sharma
