Reasons for commercial rice farming?
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Rice is the staple in the diet for much of the world. It runs a close second to wheat in its importance as a food cereal in the human diet. About 560 Million Metric Tons of rice are grown annually compared to 600 MMT for wheat, 300 MMT for oil seeds, and 900 MMT for coarse grains (corn, sorghum, barley, oats, rye, millet and mixed grains.) Most coarse grains go into animal feed where its impact on the human diet is not as great (eight lbs. of grain are needed to produce one lb. of beef). Rice produces more food energy per acre than other cereal grains, and is second only to wheat in terms of protein per acre produced. Rice production has more than doubled in the last 40 years. Most of the increase in production has been a result of improved field yields. Acreage planted in rice has only increased about 30 percent. Rice is best grown in flooded fields and so acreage is limited by soil type and supply of water.
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Determining the origin of agriculture is problematic since it pre-dates the invention of writing. Some authorities insist localized farming took place more than 10,000 years ago, while others believe the earliest systematic plantings/harvestings took place no more than 7,000 years ago. \n\nThe practice of agriculture is often used to distinguish the neolithic period from earlier parts of the stone age. The first crops that humans domesticated included wheat (einkorn and emmer) and barley. \n\nIt is clear that farming was invented at least twice, probably more often: once in the Fertile Crescent (some say by the Natufian culture, others say by the Sumerians), once in East Asia (rice), and once in Central America (maize, squash). \n\nMost likely, there was a gradual transition from a hunter-gatherer economy to an agricultural one, via a lengthy period when some crops were deliberately planted, and other foods were gathered from the wild. The reasons for the earliest introduction of farming may have included climate change. \n\nFarming allows a much greater density of population than can be supported by hunting and gathering, and the ability of farmers to feed large numbers of people whose activities have nothing to do with material production was the crucial factor in the rise of standing armies. \n\nAfter 1492, the world's agricultural patterns were shuffled in the widespread exchange of plants and animals known as the Columbian Exchange. Crops and animals that were previously only known in the Old World were now transplanted in the New, and vice versa. \n\nArchaeobotanists/Paleoethnobotanists have traced the selection and cultivation of specific food plant characteristics, such as a semi-tough rachis and larger seeds, to just after the Younger Dryas (about 9,500 BC) in the early Holocene in the Levant region of the Fertile Crescent. Limited anthropological and archaeological evidence both indicate a grain-grinding culture farming along the Nile in the 10th millennium BC using the world's earliest known type of sickle blades. \n\nThere is even earlier evidence for conscious cultivation and seasonal harvest: grains of rye with domestic traits have been recovered from Epi-Palaeolithic (10,000+ BC) contexts at Abu Hureyra in Syria, but this appears to be a localised phenomenon resulting from cultivation of stands of wild rye, rather than a definitive step towards domestication. It is not until ca. 8,500 BC, in middle-Eastern cultures referred to as Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), where there is the first definite evidence for the emergence of a widespread subsistence economy that was dependent on domesticated plants and animals. \n\nIn these contexts lie the origins of the eight so-called founder crops of agriculture: firstly emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, then hulled barley, pea, lentil, bitter vetch, chick pea and flax. These eight crops occur more or less simultaneously on PPNB sites in this region, although the consensus is that wheat was the first to be sown and harvested on a significant scale. \n\nThere are many sites that date to between ca. 8,500 BC and 7,500 BC where the systematic farming of these crops contributed the major part of the inhabitants' diet. From the Fertile Crescent agriculture spread eastwards to Central Asia and westwards into Cyprus, Anatolia and, by 7,000 BC, Greece. Farming, principally of emmer and einkorn, reached northwestern Europe via southeastern and central Europe by ca. 4,800 BC. \n\nThe reasons for the earliest introduction of farming may have included climate change, but possibly there were also social reasons (e.g. accumulation of food surplus for competitive gift-giving). Most certainly there was a gradual transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural economies after a lengthy period when some crops were deliberately planted and other foods were gathered from the wild. Although localised climate change is the favoured explanation for the origins of agriculture in the Levant, th
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It is the theory that - and pardon the layman's use of terms and simplification - man's population growth will overcome the ability of its agricultural resources to feed it. Given two groups of roughly equal people, the one with superior agricultural resources will grow faster than the one without (or with fewer) resources. \nThe theory appears to hold validity when applied to the animal world, but becomes more difficult to predict when the point of overbudening will occur with human beings. This may be due to a number of reasons, not the least which of them are technological advances in agriculture.
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Great scope.\nBoth in manufacturing and processing of Cereals,fruits,vegetables,Wheat etc.,\nProven Technology is available and Market \nis also huge.\n\nUnder contract forming:Medicinal plants,Bio diesel (Jethropa,Neem,Pongamia), gerkins could be thought off
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i have read in newspaper about the NARIC, RCA etc. this may be dead but there is an office that control the rice trade
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Here is the location you need to go find out everything you wanted to know about rice.\n\nhttp://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/
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better land management\nwater management\nuse of fertilizers\nand\nmarketing
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With the increase in the human population agriculture is going to become more important than ever.\n\nMost crops are being grown on large estates to get the benefit of economies of scale. \n\nThe chemical boosting of agriculture seems to be coming to an end. Farmers are putting fertilisers, weedkillers and plant killers on their crops with diminishing returns.\n\nThere is a move back to sustainable agriculture which means that farmers tend the soil with compost and let fields lie fallow and use less chemicals on the land.\n\nOrganic farming is also making inroads into the mass commercial production of crops - that is farmers who grow crops without using any chemicals.\n\nGenetically modified crops should improve yields and profitability  once the issues over the release of the plants are resolved.
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Not most work on farms. And many people do hot sweaty jobs. \n And there is the cost. More and more it is costing me. I want to see where it is all going. I want more services for those who are citizens and have put their time in here first. I want enough land left for the wildlife and Horses to still graze. I want more forest. I want us to be more self Dependant. \n  And letting a ton of people in is not helping. We have enough people here. Many here populate enough as it is.\n  We all have sad stories-and some have to live with it.\n And we can't have everything we want
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You don't feed rice to the chicken but you expect it to lay more eggs. You won't give the horse grass feed, but you expect it to run fast.\nWhere in the world would this be a reasonable thing?
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Presumably for the same reason it's important in any other place: Agriculture has a dual role in both personal sustenance as well as the industry of food growth/production.
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It's a really important crop for a particular area.  It makes more sense in context, like in colonial days tobacco was a staple crop for chesapeake farmers because it grew well and made a big profit.  It's a staple crop because they were dependant on it as the only thing (instead of growing a little bit of everything).
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Well the agricultural business is seasonal.The produce has only a limited life.Especially fruit and vegetables.Another very important aspect of the business is weather.Extreme weather conditions have detrimental outcomes on the crop.Other businesses are'nt subject to such rudimentary rules.Like climate,or seasonable limitations or the shelf life of goods For example if a glass producer suddenly finds no market for the product.They simply stop production.With no harm to thier equipment.Should a dairy farmer lose thier market,they still have to produce milk,plus feed the cows and work for nothing.
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All countries do it, its a big project, stockbreeding is creating food for the whole.  An interesting point, there is a guy making cows on one of the aleution islands, he makes enough cows out there to support a large percentage of Japan.  Thats a lot of cows.
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advantages - more workers etc.\ndisadvantages - more people with less space (the cities expand onto the agricutlural land) and more food (agricultural products, for more people) have to be produced on the smaller space of land. in general, more people with less space for food. also the more people create more pollution.\n\nhope that helped! xox good luck!
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Searching your specific area will help, but you need to be more specific- are you talking about animal production and husbandry, farming (broadacre/ cereal crops, irrigation, horticulture, viticulture,etc, etc) and agricultural machanics and production or the human resources aspect. Perhaps Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and other government departments  often offer "fact sheets' that can give good overviews in a variety of areas.
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Infrastructure implies many things - roads, bridges, power, irrigation systems, dams, electricity distribution systems etc. As such, some of the investment in infrastructure does positively impact the agriculture sector. There are both tangible and intangible rewards over the long term that come from investing in infrastructure. The agriculture sector will certainly benefit from investing in infrastructure. Investments in developing the agriculture sector are equally important since production of better crops, higher yields do benefit the country. Note that a great number of Indians find gainful employment in the agriculture sector in rural areas. As such, investments in the agriculture sector cannot be ignored either.