Rice Pre-season Training for KNARDA Extension Agents in Collaboration with KNARDA

Rice is the most important Food crop of about half of the human race, in particular for the South and East Asia and now spreading to Africa. The cultivable land to rice production covers five major ecologies via upland, lowland or shallow water swamp, irrigated rice, deep water/floating rice and mangrove. Rice is adapted to wide range of environmental conditions from freely drained Upland ecology to Lowlands and deep flood ecologies. Since Rice is known to be water loving, select sites with heavy soils which can hold a lot of water and avoid sandy soils which are unsuitable for growing…

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