This is an informational kit for rice production in countries in Asia, with a keen focus on the Philippines. Clearly, there is a need to intensify rice production in existing cultivable lands. Crop area in rice continues to decline and is currently equal to the rice crop area in the early 1960s when population was only 60 percent of current levels. The main concern over the next two decades will be how to grow more rice on less land. The productivity of existing rice land must be increased but, simultaneously, its fertility must be sustained and the environment protected.
