Rice Production Worldwide

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-47514-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 563 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1016 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chauhan, Bhagirath S.

Jabran, Khawar

Mahajan, Gulshan

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Schädlingsbekämpfung
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Düngemittel, Gründünger
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Getreideanbau

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities in Rice ProductionRajendra Prasad, Yashbir Singh Shivay, and Dinesh Kumar
2. Rice Production in ChinaLixiao Nie and Shaobing Peng
3. Rice Production in IndiaGulshan Mahajan, Vivek Kumar, Bhagirath S. Chauhan, and G. Mahajan
4. European RiceHansjoerg Kraehmer, Cyrille Thomas, and Francesco Vidotto
5. Rice Production in AfricaNegussie Zenna, Kalimuthu Senthilkumar, and Moussa Sie
6. Rice Production in the AmericasMuthu Bagavathiannan, Vijay Singh, Shane Zhou, Zahoor Ganie, Bernal Valverde, Luis Avila, Enio Marchesan, Aldo Merotto, Gonzalo Zorrilla, Nilda Burgos, and Jason Norsworthy

7. Rice Production in AustraliaAli Ahsan Bajwa, Bhagirath Singh Chauhan
8. Rice Production SystemsA.N. Rao, S.P. Wani, M. S. Ramesha and J.K. Ladha 9. Domestication and Development of Rice CultivarsTahir Hussain Awana, Mostafa Ahmadizadehb,c, Khawar Jabrand, Saima Hashime, and Bhagirath Singh Chauhan
10. Fertilizer Management in RiceBijay-Singh and V.K. Singh
11. Water Management in RiceAvishek Datta, Hayat Ullah, and Zannatul Ferdous
12. Insect Herbivores of Rice: their Natural Regulation and Ecologically-Based ManagementFinbarr G. Horgan
13. Importance and Management of Rice Diseases: A Global PerspectiveG. S. Laha, Ram Singh, D. Ladhalakshmi, S. Sunder, M. Srinivas Prasad, C. S. Dagar, and V. Ravindra Babu
14. Rice Weeds and their ManagementVivek Kumar, Gulshan Mahajan and Bhagirath S. Chauhan
15. Ecology and Management of Apple Snails in RiceFinbarr G. Horgan
16. Harvesting, Threshing, Processing, and Products of Rice Muhammad Riaz, Tariq Ismail, and Saeed Akhtar
17. Rice PhysiologyAhmad Nawaz and Muhammad Farooq
18. Role of Biotechnology in Rice ProductionAkshaya K Biswal, Md. Shamim, Kevin Cruzado, Gericho Soriano, Abhijit Ghatak, MitchellRey Toleco, and Prashant Vikram

Über Autor(innen)

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