Socio-Economic Marketing Practices and Problems of Paddy Cultivators In SPSR Nellore Dt: A Case Study of Muthylapadu

Abstract

A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semi-aquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice farming culture of the Yangtze River basin in southern China, associated with Pre-Austronesian and Hmong-main cultures. Paddy also called rice paddy, small level flooded field used to cultivate rice in southern and eastern Asia. Wet rice cultivation is the most prevalent method of farming in the far east, where it utilises a small fraction of the total land yet feeds the majority of the rural population. Rice is a tropical climate crop that can grow from sea level to an altitude of 3000 meters. Paddy cultivation can also be done in temperate and subtropical climate under humid conditions. A higher temperature, humidity and sufficient rainfall with irrigation facilities are the primary requirement of paddy cultivation. It is also needing bright sunshine with temperature ranging between 20 and 40 degrees centigrade. It can tolerate temperature up to 42 degrees centigrade.