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Soil Factors that Influence Rice Production

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Proceedings of Symposium on Paddy Soils

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Perhaps no major food crop rivals rice in the range of hydrologic and climatic conditions under which it is grown. Rice is produced in every continent except Antarctica and thrives in an area ranging in latitude from 53° to 40°(l). It grows as a dryland crop much like maize or wheat, as a rainfed crop under alternately flooded and dry conditions, and as a continuously flooded crop. Farmers grow rice on alluvial plains, flooded valleys, and terraced hillsides. Even though it has less drought tolerance than other cereals, rice grows well in arid areas under irrigation such as in Egypt and Pakistan. Likewise, despite rice’s sensitivity to low temperature, yields are high in northern China and Japan and at elevations of more than 3,000 meters in the tropics and subtropics.

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Brady, N.C. (1981). Soil Factors that Influence Rice Production. In: Proceedings of Symposium on Paddy Soils. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68141-7_1

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