Are any of our readers involved in rice production on a big scale. I need to find out a lot of stuff about rice very quickly especially the equipment used.
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Try these links for starters:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5427e/x5427e04.htm
http://www.menurice.com/All_About_Rice/How_Rice_is_Grown/Farming_and_Cultivation.asp
http://amerigui.blogspot.com/2006/12/j-rice-production-cycle.html
Good luck with the GCSE Module!
You just need a couple of hundred of these Theo.
http://www.ricewisdom.org/images/rice-wisdom-022-growing.jpg
What equipment used?
Do you mean the drilling equipment, well-building equipment, pumps, canals, and waterways needed for rice production?
Do you mean the GPS location-finders mounted to tractor-pulled equipment that actually make the curving little levees that make the water level exactly right, not too much, not too little? Or maybe the big land-levelers that knock the ground down pool-table smooth?
Maybe you're interested in the various air-craft delivered seeding and chemical delivery systems, and how those compare to big-tired ground units or possibly the helicopter-delivered units.
Or do you mean the huge combines that cut the rice and the big rice trucks that work the fields after the levees have been broken and the excess water drained off?
There is a lot more to it than some Asian-looking folks with conical straw hats and little hand-held sythes.
Razorback: Am looking at planting 200,000 hectares and harvesting in the most efficient way possible.
In Norfolk??!
Isn't the first thing a huge supply of human manure?
May I suggest you get it domestically from the Parliament?
A good way to get up to speed on high-volume rice production would be to book a duck hunt around Stuttgart, Arkansas this fall.
Much of this hunting is done over harvested, reflooded rice fields. You'll get the opportunity to pick the brains of some large rice producers, as well as do some duck and waterfowl hunting.
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