Rice economics

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Most of 726 million rural populations in India are dependent on agriculture. Rice is the staple food of nearly 65% of the total population in India. The production of rough rice reached 135 million tonnes  in the TE 2002 from 32.3 million tonnes (20 million tonnes clean rice) in 1950-52, primarily due to the fact that agriculture is in the dynamic path in transforming traditional mode of production to modern agriculture. rice economy is most important and provides 21% of global human percapita energy and 15% of per capita protein.