If you happen to visit one of the farms situated in the southern east Maharashtra the soil type of that farm would be different than that of the farm of the northern Maharashtra Which type of soll do you think will it be? Describe that type of soil in three-four sentences.
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Rice is one among the oldest cultivated crop as evident from Vedic literatures and Archeological excavation. It is being cultivated in India and China since thousands of years. About 90 % of world’s area under rice is in Asia and about 90 % of world’s rice is produced and consumed in Asia. Globally rice is grown in more than 150m ha area. India and Chine together hold about half the world’s rice area and more than 60 % people are rice eaters. Rice is the main staple food and the first cultivated crop in Asia long before the era of which we have the historical evidences (Parthasarathi, 1960 and Ghosh et al., 1960). No one really knows exactly where first seeds of rice originated.
Cultivation of rice in Tropical Asia probably began about 10,000 years ago (De Datta, 1981). In India, oldest specimen of rice was found in Hasthinapur (UP) in a carbonized form during excavation (1000-750 BC). India may have had the earliest date of cultivation as wild rice is found in abundant. Domestication process first took place in China and later transmitted to South East Asia. It is also believed that wild rice first cultivated in Bangladesh, Assam, Orissa or its surrounding areas. It is also cultivated in most countries of west and North Africa (Egypt), east and central Africa. Its cultivation further extended to south and Central American countries (Latin America), Australia, USA and Southern European countries like Spain, Italy, and France.
Rice is one among the staple food crop in Sikkim as inferred from the epithet “Denzong”-meaning “Valley of Rice”. Its antiquity is Sikkim is difficult to trace out but some experts consider the entire NE Region including Sikkim and adjoining area of China shall be the probable home of rice. A large number of landraces are cultivated in Sikkim in addition to introduce since 1970s.
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