FAO Rice Information, Volume 3, December 2002


The Secretariat of the International Rice Commission
Crop and Grassland Service
Plant Production and Protection Division
Agriculture Department

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, Italy

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Foreword

Chapter I. Rice production, consumption and nutrition - V.N. Nguyen

Rice production during 1995-2000
Rice consumption
Rice nutrition
References

Chapter II. Major weed problems in rice - red/weedy rice and the Echinochloa complex - R. Labrada

Red/weedy rice
Echinochloa complex
References

Chapter III. Rice in producing countries - V.N. Nguyen and D.V. Tran

Producing countries during 1995-2000
CORIFA (Profile of country rice facts)

Afghanistan
Argentina
Australia
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Bolivia
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Cameroon
Chad
China
Colombia
Côte d’Ivoire
Cuba
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
France
Gambia
Ghana
Greece
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
India
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Italy
Japan
Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
Liberia
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mauritania
Mexico
Mozambique
Myanmar
Nepal
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Pakistan
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
Republic of Korea
Russian Federation
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Spain
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Turkey
United Republic of Tanzania
United States of America
Uruguay
Venezuela
Viet Nam

References

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