Examples of rice

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In 1997, a rice crop was grown without any treatment application to test for residual effects.
Transplanted rice undergoes two more growth processes than does the directly seeded rice, nursery growth and transplanting shock.
Legumes for sustaining soil fertility in lowland rice.
Temporal deter minants of the productivity of rice-wheat cropping systems.
Improving water use eciency in rice irrigation through wet seeding.
The price of chickpea is about three times that of unmilled rice.
Besides nutrients and light, rice and weeds also competed for water.
Identification and characterization of a new blast resistance gene located on rice chromosome 1 through linkage and differential analysis.
Rice and wheat account for nearly 75% of the total food grains produced.
The ratio between fertilizer prices and rice far mgate prices was, however, more promising.
Broadcasting of the fertilizer in flooded rice fields is easy and can be done in less than a day for an entire hectare.
There is no statistical evidence of a consistent yield trend of rice or wheat with time.
Improving nitrogen-®xing systems and integrating them into sustainable rice far ming.
The introduction of iron improved the effectiveness of coastal rice-growing technology.
The late duration rice varieties were also distinguished into two groups, efficient and non-efficient.
Two-dimensional image analysis of the shape of rice and its application to separating varieties.
Opportunity for increasing nitrogen use efficiency from improved lowland rice germplasm.
Efforts to calculate the level of price support for rice required the government to elicit cost of production data from the agricultural associations.
In the laboratory, rice stems were scraped9 and gut contents were carefully removed11.
They follow indigenous rice agronomy, ignoring the use of fertilizers, pesticides and even supplementary feed for the fish reared in the system.
The rich diversity and the production environment and methods are favorable for organic rice production.
One of these studies was repeated over four rice crops.
Magnesium increased in the castor bean globoids but remained relatively constant in rice globoids.
Although it was well-known that rice is mainly self-pollinating, it was also known that some cross-pollination can take place.
Finally, in red rice, both primary dormancy breaking and secondary dormancy inducibility follow decay kinetics during afterripening.
Most of the agriculture practiced here is short-term rice and manioc followed by 4- 7 y of fallow.
Furthermore, since they were involved in the wholesaling of rice and fertilizer, they could not necessarily be recognized as retailers.
In rice fields, these three families or subfamilies made up 63% of species and 86% of all individuals present.
The rice package and book were the easiest to detect, which can be seen from the average time for detection.
After about twenty minutes a heaping plate of curried vegetables arrived, accompanied by a big bowl of rice.
Extending some of the resource-conserving interventions developed for wheat to rice culture is a major challenge for researchers and farmers alike.
The incorporation of indigo as green manure coincided with land preparation for the succeeding rice crop.
Even the most controlled commodity, rice, has seen greater freedom with the relaxing of the import ban and state-controlled distribution system.
In absolute terms (in tons), the crop losses are biggest for wheat and rice.
At the grain-forming, post-grain-forming and maturity stages, the fraction of above-ground biomass representing grain yield (rice grain with husk, and barley seed) was separately estimated.
All grains except rice were allowed to move freely throughout the country and there were no restrictions on price, purchase, and sales.
Five factories served bread and rice for all schools.
Infection is characterized by white segments resembling rice grains in the host's faeces.
In the initial phase of alkaline soil reclamation programmes, rice culture enjoys a favoured place in any cropping sequence recommended for adoption.
In the lowland rice experiment (2) no differences in nematode population densities were recorded between treatments, although densities were relatively low over both years.
The travellers approach through a dawn landscape filled with bird-song, sights of towering mountains, and the sound of people working in the rice fields.
Usually only one or two rice crops were taken from a site, after which it was abandoned for twelve years or so.
One of the major challenges is to grow zero-till direct dry seeded rice with agronomic practices already developed for wheat and other crops.
They have also cultivated 15 acres of swampy rice.
Sampling times 2 and 3 were in the rainy season, which coincided with the rice season in three of the farming systems.
Timing of harvest, therefore, was much closer to physiological maturity of the rice crop.
The size of the protein detected in rice grains by the antibody to tomato endo-b-mannanase is clearly within the range of those already known.
However, rice is able to convert sucrose to starch at high temperature and humidity.
All these functional, ecological and economic linkages of waterlogged rice agroecosystems have made the rice-fish farming technique a sustainable component of small-scale rural aquaculture30.
Interactions between non-flooded mulching cultivation and varying nitrogen inputs in rice-wheat rotations.
However, for rice and perhaps other cereals, the processes controlled by these two pathways are interrelated in complex ways.
In the study villages, weeds are pests that cause low rice yields.
Gaining mastery over the challenges of the coast represents the next step in the development of tidal rice-growing technology.
All this was done in the name of the 'stable supply of rice at stable prices'.
Nowadays, swamps tend to be sown and harvested later than rice farms prepared on rain-fed land.
In the mid-hills, the cropping systems are predominantly maize-based on rainfed land (bari) and rice-based on the lower, irrigated land (khet).
Quantifying -ow processes during land soaking of cracked rice soils.
The investigation revealed that the rice itself provided the substrates for colonization and growth of periphyton.
Figure 4 shows the loss of dormancy with time when rice seeds of one cultivar are stored at five different temperatures.
Besides increasing rice's nutritional value, it also made it resistant to weevils and reduced cooking time.
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