Rice plays a unique role in providing calories to the majority of Asian and Latin American countries. The exploitation of high yielding indicas has brought a major break through in rice production. India continues to be a major rice producing country but the plateuing productivity is causing concern to every body. At the current rate of population growth in India, the requirement of rice by turn of the century is estimated to be around 150 million tons of paddy.

There is an accumulation of new knowledge for the last decade on various aspects of rice technology. The salient features of the book are the progress of research in rice management which include nutrient, water and weed management, plant protection and others. It is a recent treasure of scientific information on rice production technology, which will be great practical value. The book is concise yet comprehensive richly illustrated and offers a coherent account of rice science. The subject has a direct bearing on rice production and its sustainability. It is written for broad readers and should be of interest to agricultural planners, training centres and those interested in more and sustainable crop production. In short, it is valuable text book cum reference manual for agricultural scientists, under and post graduate students, academician, policy makers and extension officers.