Preface : About 65% of the people in our country have rice in their daily diet. Rice supplies most of the nutrients to the human body. Also, compared to other crops, paddy has many uses for livestock and industry. Therefore, rice is known as a multi-purpose cereal crop. Apart from this, paddy is a major cereal crop that grows and yields successfully in a wide variety of soils such as light, heavy, wetlands and saline. Considering the food grains grown in the state of Maharashtra, rice ranks after sorghum and millet. Even so, paddy is the major food crop of the people of Konkan, Nagpur division of Vidarbha as well as Kolhapur, Pune, Nashik and adjoining areas of the division. In Maharashtra, paddy is also known as "Sal" and "Dhan". Special emphasis will have to be laid on increasing the area under cultivation, especially improved varieties of paddy, which will help in increasing productivity per hectare, balanced use of organic and chemical fertilizers as recommend
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