However, Asia is still the biggest rice producer, accounting for 90% of world's production and consumption of rice.
Rice is a staple food for many countries. In parts of Africa and Asia, many poorer urban families get over half their daily calories from rice. As the world population increase, can rice keep up? To meet growing demands, rice production has to be raised by at least 70% over the next tree decades. The area devoted to rice cultivation cannot grow, so much international research is being done to find ways of growing rice on less land.