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Traditional
one crop per
year
cultivation –
New rice
breeds allow
two crops per
year
nowdadays
Bunds – small raised Transplanting rice plants
earth walls – by hand into flooded padi
between padis fields
Transplanting rice plants
by hand into flooded padi
fields
Growing rice in flooded
padi during wet season
Rice ripens during dry
months of January and
February
Ripe rice is harvested and
dried before use
Commercial Rice Cultivation
Recent changes in cultivation have increased yield
and rice cultivation is now and example of
Intensive Peasant Commercial Agriculture.
= Increased yields
The Green Revolution
• Core Higher Page 254 Figure 8.38
What were the main (i) aims and (ii) results of the
recent rice breeding program at the I.R.R.I