Crops

Rice

Citation Formats

General Reference

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. "Rice." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/rice.

APA Style

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Rice. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/rice

BibTeX

@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-rice,
  author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas},
  title = {Rice},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/rice},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The staple grain of Asia and the daily food of more than half the world. Domesticated from wild grasses in the Yangtze basin, rice is unusual among cereals in thriving in standing water, which is why the flooded paddy, one of the most productive and labor-intensive farming systems ever devised, grew up around it.

Facts

Scientific Name

Oryza sativa 1

Crop Class

Cereal 1

Domestication Region

Yangtze River basin, China 1

Domesticated When (Circa)

circa 9000 to 6000 BC 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Green Revolution

Source Green Revolution (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Rice (Wikipedia)

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