Rice Production Worldwide (eBook)

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

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
VIII, 563 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-47516-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Dr. Bhagirath Chauhan

Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Toowoomba, Australia

Khawar Jabran

Duzce University

Department of Plant Protection

Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences

Duzce, Turkey 

Gulshan Mahajan

Punjab Agricultural University

Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics

Ludhiāna, India

Autor

Bhagirath Chauhan, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Toowoomba, AustraliaKhawar 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, Ludhiāna, India

Inhalt

1. Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities in Rice ProductionRajendra Prasad, Yashbir Singh Shivay, and Dinesh Kumar2. Rice Production in ChinaLixiao Nie and Shaobing Peng3. Rice Production in IndiaGulshan Mahajan, Vivek Kumar, Bhagirath S. Chauhan, and G. Mahajan4. European RiceHansjoerg Kraehmer, Cyrille Thomas, and Francesco Vidotto5. Rice Production in AfricaNegussie Zenna, Kalimuthu Senthilkumar, and Moussa Sie6. 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 Norsworthy7. Rice Production in AustraliaAli Ahsan Bajwa, Bhagirath Singh Chauhan8. 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 Chauhan10. Fertilizer Management in RiceBijay-Singh and V.K. Singh11. Water Management in RiceAvishek Datta, Hayat Ullah, and Zannatul Ferdous12. Insect Herbivores of Rice: their Natural Regulation and Ecologically-Based ManagementFinbarr G. Horgan13. 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 Babu14. Rice Weeds and their ManagementVivek Kumar, Gulshan Mahajan and Bhagirath S. Chauhan15. Ecology and Management of Apple Snails in RiceFinbarr G. Horgan16. Harvesting, Threshing, Processing, and Products of Rice Muhammad Riaz, Tariq Ismail, and Saeed Akhtar17. Rice PhysiologyAhmad Nawaz and Muhammad Farooq18. Role of Biotechnology in Rice ProductionAkshaya K Biswal, Md. Shamim, Kevin Cruzado, Gericho Soriano, Abhijit Ghatak, MitchellRey Toleco, and Prashant Vikram

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2017
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 563 p. 56 illus., 39 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: fertilizer management in rice • rice cultivars • rice pests management • Rice production systems • Rice Products • systematic botany
• ISBN-10: 3-319-47516-9 / 3319475169
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-47516-5 / 9783319475165