The total planted area of rice is smaller than the total area planted to wheat. However, more than half of the world population depends on rice as their main source of calories and protein. It provides some 700 calories/day/person for about 3,000 million people, most of whom live in developing countries.
AGPC's Rice Development Programme is a key component of the Field Food Crop Group's activities. Its main mission is to promote wide adoption of improved technologies for sustainable increases in rice production in all ecologies - from high altitude to coastal areas and from temperate to tropical climates. Sustainable, increased rice production results not only in more food and higher incomes for farmers, but also in better conservation of natural resources and the global environment.
The programme implements recommendations made by the FAO International Rice Commission, which was established in 1949 to promote cooperative action by Member Countries in the production, conservation, distribution and consumption of rice.
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Crop groups
Rice
livestock
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