Essays on Rice Production

Disease and Type of Prevention Method

The disease that is being studied is the Rice Blast disease. It is one of the most serious diseases related to rice which is caused by the bacteria Magnaporthe grisea. It could result to a loss of about 10 to 20 % of rice production. It is a common agricultural problem around the world and it could reduce the global rice production of up to 40 to 50%. The rice blast disease also attacks large amounts of rice fields in China during the 1990s (Peng et al., 2016). In the study, the rice blast in Nanchong City was studied and ...

Introduction

Both Judith Carney and Rafael Marquese examine the contribution of African Slaves in the development and production of specific cash crops. Carney believes that the production of Rice in South Carolina is as a result of diffusion of agricultural culture from Africa to Americas. She argues that rice production was the culture of the West Africans far before the Portuguese explorers reached Africa in in the 14th century. Rice was the staple food among most of the West African communities. They used the mangrove swamps to create paddies and used canal irrigation to water the rice. The same methodology ...

Introduction

East Asia comprises of four countries located on the Eastern end of the Asian Continent. The four countries making up the region are China, Mongolia, Japan and North and South Korea. The geography of East Asia comprises of mountains, plateaus, deserts, and Islands. Other than the physical features, East Asia is characterized by high population densities with China and Japan being some of the most populated countries in the World. These high population densities coupled with the size of arable land has resulted in most East Asian countries having rice as the main cereal crop. The climate and the ...

Introduction

The public concern about food production sustainability has increased of late because of the increase in the world population as well as the growing natural resources insufficiency. Although numerous sustainable practices of cultivation have been developed up to now, the overall impacts of the introduction of these sustainable practices into the farm management are still vague. The life cycle assessment plays a crucial role in assessing the environmental impact of the whole systems of production from the life cycle point of view. Although some countries have applied LCA to the agricultural systems, its applications to the production of rice are ...

- When and where did rice emerge historically? The origin of rice has always been a debatable issue because of a multiplicity of archaeological sites that have evidence on rice planting in China, India, Thailand and parts of Africa. According to Chang (n.d.) the Chinese believe that rice originated from their country and this notion is supported by genetic studies on rice. This is backed up by the fact that China has a lot of wild rice. Rice is said to have been planted in China as early as 2700 BC. In the 1920s rice glume imprints which were dated 3200-2500 ...

Introduction

Japan is among the countries that experienced vigorous adjustments in agricultural structures in the economic development process and liberalization of the world trade. Paths of adjustment in agriculture that have been taken by Japan are different from other countries that are advanced like North America and Western Europe. This makes them conflict during negotiations of trade and world agricultural policy reforms. The agricultural sector in Japan has become the main talk of other nations concerning its strategy towards trade and liberalization. Many nations want to form partnerships with Japan. Policy makers have not created any sustainable policies towards agricultural ...

Food production and food security remain to be the greatest challenges the world faces currently. This has led to a shift in world attention to the pressing need to increase agricultural production especially in Third World Countries which have been largely hit by chronic food shortages. In this respect, most countries such as Jamaica have taken various steps towards food production in line with the 1996 World Food Summit Plan of Action. Most developing countries were forced by harsh economic times and high debts to accept aid loans from the International Monetary Fund, which is among the world’s financial ...

Introduction

Key figures in the caliber of Ingo Potrykus have made alarming contributions in public health which have immensely impacted globalization and social change to the extent that remarkable shifts have occurred in the discipline both locally and in the international arena.

Major Contributions to Public Health

Ingo Potrykus is significantly known for developing the golden rice project which is exclusive to the production of provitamin A. Also Ingo Potrykhus was very influential in organizing funding for the project and teamed up with Peter Beyer in launching a $2.6 million venture.

Challenges of implementation

The first major challenge was identifying the target countries for the gold rice projects especially, ...

Key figures in the caliber of Ingo Potrykhus have made alarming contributions in public health which have immensely impacted globalization and social change to the extent that remarkable shifts have occurred in the discipline both locally and in the international arena.

Major Contributions to Public Health

Ingo Potrykhus is significantly known for developing the golden rice project which is exclusive to the production of provitamin A. Also Ingo Potrykhus was very influential in organizing funding for the project and teamed up with Peter Beyer in launching a $2.6 million venture.

Challenges of implementation

The first major challenge was identifying the target countries for the gold rice projects especially, ...