While upland rice is characterized by cultivation that utilizes rainfall instead of irrigation. It is naturally well drained soils without surface water accumulation and normally without phreatic water supply.
The rice are prepared and seeded under dry condition and that depend on rainfall for moisture. Upland rice is grown in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Upland rice is grown mostly by small subsistence farmers in the poorest regions of the word. But the area planted to upland is nearly 10% of the world’s total rice land.
Upland rice production is characterized by tiny percentages of marketed output, low yield and relatively low levels of use of modern inputs.
The soil may be cultivated when dry and planted by direct seeding. Upland rice is also dibbled directly into the uncultivated soil after land clearing and burning.
In most of Asia, mechanization is used to prepare land for an upland rice crop. A soon as enough rain has fallen to permit land preparation, the field is plowed with animal-drawn implements.
Upland rice production
