Brown rice seed

LATIN NAME: Oryza sativa

COMMON NAME: Brown Rice

Rice is one of the great grain crops of the world, a handsome, upright, densely tufted annual grass of the warm, wet fields, and its fine, narrow, arching leaves and its dense, nodding heads of the many small, dry, husked grains have made it a treasured and essential plant of the region. It grows as an upright, densely tufted, annual grass, reaching up to one metre and a half or more, with the many slender, upright stems bearing the fine, narrow, arching leaves and, through the warm months, the dense, nodding heads of the many small, dry, husked grains. It is a species of the cereal grass in the true grass family, and it is native to the warm, wet places of the south and south-eastern Asia, while it is treasured as one of the great food grains of the world, and it is known as rice.

In the true grass family it is the great cereal of the warm, wet fields, a species whose husked grains have fed more of the world than almost any other crop.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

Rice is among the most studied of all the crop plants, and the mapping of its genome opened a long and fruitful chapter in the plant science, since the rice has served as a model for the study of the grasses. The plant scientists have examined its growth, its yield and its ways of coping with the warm, wet fields, and the food scientists have studied the husked grains that are the staple food for a great part of the world. It is a crop of the world-scale kind, and it carries an extraordinary record of study.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the warm, wet field, rice is the green, tufted crop that feeds the world. Its dense, nodding heads feed the birds and the small creatures, and the tufted growth holds the wet ground. The husked grains are a staple food, a fine ingredient of the cooking of the whole world, and the grain of a great part of the human table. Green, generous and world-important.

Soak the grains overnight in tepid water, then sow them at a shallow depth in trays of fine, moist seed compost and stand the trays in a warm, bright place with the soil kept gently damp, and the first green shoots will be up within days.