MAXIMIZATION OF SEED YIELD AND QUALITY OF PADDY (Oryza sativa L.) THROUGH ANTIOXIDANTS
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2017-08-21
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
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Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a “Global Grain” cultivated widely across the world and
feeds millions of mankind, is the staple food for more than half of the human population.
In Asia alone more than two billion people depend on rice and its products for their food
intake. Rice being grown in Asia for at least 10,000 years and it has become deeply
embedded in the cultural heritage of Asian societies and is the life, heart and soul of the
people throughout Asia. It can be considered as “Rice Basket” of the world, as 90 per
cent of world‟s rice is grown and consumed by 60 per cent of the population and where,
about two-thirds of world‟s poor live (Khush and Virk, 2005). Only 4-5 per cent of world
rice production enters the global market. Hence, any shortfall in rice production
especially in the major rice growing countries could be disaster for food security.
World acreage under rice cultivation is 158.8 m. ha. with a production of 738.2
m. t. (FAO, 2015). In India, rice is the second most produced commodity cultivated on an
area of 43.95 m. ha. with production and productivity
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