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In my post this time it is about rice, because rice is the staple food of the people of Indonesia and several countries in the world. My own activities and those of the people where I live plant a lot of rice.

Rice (Oryza sativa) is a cultivated plant that is very important in human civilization. Apart from being known as a cultivated plant, rice also has several wild types which belong to the same genus. The rice plant is thought to have originated from India or Indochina and entered Indonesia through the migration of ancestors from mainland Asia around 1500 BC.

Rice is included in the grain family. It is an annual plant with fibrous roots and very short stems. The stem is formed from a series of leaf sheaths that support each other's leaves with upright midribs. Rice leaves are lanceolate in shape, light to dark green in color, parallel veined, and covered with short hairs. The flower parts are compound in a branched panicle type. Rice fruit is in the form of a grain or caryopsis, which is covered in palea and lemma, or in everyday language it is called a husk. The part usually consumed from rice grains.

Each rice flower has six anthers and two bifurcated stigmas. Both are usually ready to reproduce at the same time. Rice is a self-pollinating plant, where most of the pollen fertilizes the egg cells of the same plant. After fertilization, the zygote develops into an embryo and the polar nucleus becomes endosperm. At the final stage of development, rice grains contain starch as an energy source for young plants.

Rice cultivation techniques have been known to humans for thousands of years. There are several cultivation systems used for rice, including paddy field cultivation, dry land, swamp land, and upland ranch systems. Each system requires a suitable cultivar, for example, upland rice for dry land cultivation.

The rice farming process includes seeding, planting, maintenance and harvesting. Other important aspects include cultivar selection, seed processing, and seed storage.

Rice is susceptible to various pests, such as stem borers, planthoppers, flies, caterpillars, mice, and diseases such as bacterial leaf blight.

After harvesting, the grain is separated from the straw. The grain is then dried in the sun and stored or directly processed into rice. By-products of this process include husks, rice bran, and bran, which can be used as fuel, craft materials, or animal feed.

Rice can be processed into various foods, such as rice, porridge, or refreshing drinks. Rice can also be used for wrapping, such as ketupat or lontong, or processed into drinks such as kencur rice or balur medicine to relieve aches.

That's all my post on this occasion. Hope it is useful

Rice Plants Almost Harvested

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