Department of Agronomy, Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur-848 121, India.
*Corresponding author.
1Maize Section, Tirhut College of Agriculture, Dholi, Muzaffarpur, Blhar-843 121, India.
Rice is the prince among cereals and is the staple food in areas of high population density and fast population growth. Nutritive security is as important as food security for the developing countries of tropical Asia in general and India in particular. As such the quality indices in rice play major role in nutritional budgeting of million of Indians as well as Indian economy. It was in this context that recent reviews focussed in detail on the rice quality indices/parameters, the production quality, rice agronomic research accomplishment in the country and present scenario quality rice in the national economy.
