Rice is the most consumed crop in India, which is the second largest producer of rice in the world after China. Rice belongs to the kharif crop season, with sowing occurring between June and July and harvesting from September to October. Rice cultivation requires high temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius and high rainfall or irrigation. Some key facts are that rice is a monocot plant scientifically named Oryza sativa, it was first mentioned in the Yajur Veda, and Asia grows and consumes over 90% of the world's rice production.

1. PRESENTATION
ON
rice

2. CONTENT
 RICE (INTRODUCTION)
 RICE GROWING STATES OF INDIA
(MAP)
 CROP
 TEMPERATURE
 IF LESS RAIN?
 SOME INTERESTING FACTS.
 THANKING YOU…

3. RICE
Most used in ‘India’.
India is the second
largest producer of
Rice in world after
China.

5. crop
Rice belongs to Kharif crop.
 Sowing: June – July.
Harvesting: September – October.

6. temperature
Rice requires high temperature
above 25 degree C.
It requires high humidity with
high rainfall.

7. if less rain fALL?
Areas of less rainfall, cultivated
through Irrigation.
Due to less rain fall in Punjab,
Haryana, and western Uttar
Pradesh and parts of Rajasthan,
it is cultivated by using Canal
irrigation, Tube wells, etc.

8. SOME INTERESTING FACTS:
Rice is the monocot plant.
‘Oryza sativa’ is the scientific name of
Rice.
Rice is first mentioned in Yajur veda.
More than 90% of world’s rice is
grows and consumed by Asia.
Rice is the staple diet of half of the
world’s population.

9. THANK YOU…