Rice in the World
Rice is grown on all continents, with Asia as its main crop, with 90% of world production. This is followed by the American, with 5.1%, the African, with 4.2%, the European, 0.6% and the oceanic, also with 0.1% of world rice production. In Oceania, Australia stands out, which alone produces 819.3 thousand tons.
Rice in Asia
In Asia, there are the world’s eight largest rice producers. First is China, followed by India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines, which produce 207, 157, 70, 52, 45, 33, 26 and 19 million tonnes respectively. China contributes 28% of world production and 31% of Asia, followed by India with 21% and 24%, respectively. Brazil is in 9th place, with a production corresponding to 1.6% of the world.
Rice in America
In the Americas, rice is of great social and economic importance. In Latin America and the Caribbean, production of 28.7 million tons of rice represents 3.9% of world production, especially Brazil, which accounts for 42% of this production. In North America, rice is produced only in the United States of America, whose production is 10.1 million tonnes.
Rice In the Southern Cone
In the Southern Cone Market (Mercosur), the highlight is Brazil, which occupies the 1st place in harvested area and rice production, with 10.8 million tons, followed in descending order by Peru, 2.9 Colombia, 2.2, Argentina, 1.6, Ecuador, 1.4, Uruguay, 1.3, Paraguay, 0.8, Bolivia, 0.4 and Chile, 0.1. The rice area in these countries totaled 4.5 million hectares, with a production of 24.1 million tons, corresponding to 2.8% and 3.3% of the world’s total, respectively, and one productivity of 5,262 kg ha-1.
According to Embrapa Rice and Kidney Bean (2021), with adapted and modified data from the monitoring of crops from the Agricultural Systematic Survey (LSPA) of the Brazilian Institute of Statistical Geography (IBGE), in the agricultural year of 2021, total rice production was 10,8 million tonnes.
The irrigated rice cultivation system, with controlled irrigation, accounted for 88.2% of the total national production, followed by highland rice, 11.8%, and irrigated rice, without controlled irrigation or natural floodplain. ,1%.
Brazilian Rice Production by Cultive Type
Brazilian Rice Production by Cultive Regions
