All About Rice Farming
Introduction to Rice Farming
Rice is one of the most important crops here in Japan and many Asian countries. Rice farming is said to be started around 10,000 years ago in East Asia. After centuries of development and improvement, rice farming has been modernized by tools and machines with new technology.
In this page, we are going to introduce you the rice agriculture in general and here in Japan specially. Japan Agri Trading export from Japan variety of rice farming products from basic cultivator to modernized machinery.
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Rice Cultivation Methods
There are two methods of planting rice. Dry rice farming and Wet rice farming (also known as wet-land or wet-paddy agriculture).
Wet rice farming is more popular method due to better quality and higher yield. However, the method depends on climate and conditions of your land.
Rice Production Process and Equipment
How long does it take to grow rice? Usually, it takes 6 months to grow and harvest rice from Spring to Autumn.
There are countless types of rice farming depending on country or region. In this page, we are going to describe the rice farming process here in Japan.
As you can see, a lot of processes are required to grow and harvest rice. Rice farming has been developed and modernized in long years in order to reduce labor of rice farmers. Nowadays, rice farmers use many types of machineries and technologies in order to get higher yield and the best quality with less labor and working time.
If you want to know more about rice farming equipment, machinery and tools, please click the link on the right columns.
Paddy Cultivation Process and Equipment
| Seed | Seeding rice and nurture seedlings in nursery trays. Controlling temperature is the key to grow fine seedling. | Nursery Trays |
|---|---|---|
| Nurse | Move the nursery trays to vinyl house (green house) and grow them bigger. Control growing speed under artificial environment. | Nursery Trays |
| Cultivate | Groove paddy field by tractor and cultivate the paddy field ground with green manure. | Tractor |
| Water | Water the paddy field and cultivate the field more. Ready for the rice planting at this stage. | |
| Transplant | Transplant rice seedling by rice transplanter. Transplanting rice seedling by hands is very tiresome. With rice transplanter, the machine can transplant seedlings accurately and in short time. | Transplanter |
| Ditch | Making furrows with a furrow opener. Opening furrows produces better quality rice. By being careful of such a detail, you will find how important process it is at harvest time. | Furrow Opener |
| Weed | Maintain good paddy field by weed killing, pesticide application and supply fertilizers. | Weeder |
| Harvest | After rice has grown, harvest and thresh rice by harvest combine. Harvest combine is the one of the main products of modernized rice farming. From small to large paddy field, the latest harvest combines can harvest rice in less labor with high-yield. | Combine Harvester |
| Dry | Dry rice after harvest by harvest combine in order to control the quality of rice. We recommend mesh type container bags to keep rice dry by taking fresh air. It is said that amount of moisture should be 15%. | Drying Machine Container Bag |
| Hull | Rice Huller produces brown rice from unhulled rice. Hulling Machine (Rice Husker) separates rice husks from brown rice. Our Rice Hullers are engineered especially for rice hulling. With hulling machine, you can reduce a lot of labor and time on harvesting rice. | Huller Destoner |
| Polish | Polish brown rice by a Rice Polisher. Rice Polisher removes bran from brown rice. By polishing rice, you will finally get white rice. This is the second step of rice processing. | Polisher |
| Scale Pack |
Scale and packing polished white rice. Sorting defects or small rice is also important to maintain the rice quality as a whole. | Packing Scale Rice bag |
Please note that rice farming process and method vary depending on farmers and conditions of the paddy field.
Rice Production in the World
| Country | Rice Production (ton) |
|---|---|
| China | 212,676,000 |
| India | 168,500,000 |
| Indonesia | 81,382,000 |
| Bangladesh | 48,980,000 |
| Vietnam | 42,763,682 |
| Myanmar | 25,624,866 |
| Philippines | 19,276,347 |
| Brazil | 12,469,516 |
| Pakistan | 11,174,700 |
| Cambodia | 10,350,000 |
| Japan | 9,780,000 |
| United States of America | 8,084,290 |
| Egypt | 6,380,000 |
| Republic of Korea | 5,284,348 |
| Nepal | 5,230,327 |
About 90% of global rice production comes from Asian countries. Rice is produced in Japan, China and India. Also, a lot of countries produce rice such as ; Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Philippines, Pakistan, Cambodia, United States, Korea, Nepal, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Laos. Today, rice farming is becoming popular in Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Senegal and Madagascar as well.
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Types and Quality of Japanese Rice
Japanese consumers demand high quality rice because rice is principal food here in Japan.
To harvest quality rice, many equipment are being used in each faming process. Additionally, inspection of rice is very important in the field to know the best harvest time. Rice inspection machine is one of the new technologies developed to verify the quality of rice.
Japanese Rice Brands
In Japan, we inspect rice quality according to Japanese regulations. Farmers cannot indicate the rice brand name without the official certification by authority.
Hundreds of rice brands are certified here in Japan. Just a few names of the popular brands are Koshihikari, Sasanishiki, Hitomebore and newly developed Shinnosuke and many more.
In agricultural laboratories, improvement and development of new species are advancing day by day. Not only the taste but farmers and workers in laboratories develop also healthier and stronger rice even in the difficult conditions such as flood, drought or insect damage.
Brown Rice
In the global demand for healthy and organic foods, brown rice is getting popular around the world. Brown rice is rice without hull (chaff) of rice. White rice is hulled and polished brown rice.
Brown rice contains more vitamin, mineral and dietary fiber and it is considered as nutritious crop and healthy food.
Japanese Kanji Words of Rice and Paddy Field
Japanese word for rice is kome. Japanese kanji character for rice is described as below.
Japanese word for paddy field is ta. Kanji character for paddy field is described as below.
As you can see, it is symbolized from rice field image viewing from above.
Those kanjis are commonly used in the name of persons or towns due to the historical relationship with Japanese culture and people.
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