The new millennium witnesses the food security and food scarcity as major issues haunting the humanity at large, notably in developing countries, including India. India realizes much of its food security from cereals, notably rice and wheat, for billion of population. Weeds jeopardize rice production to a level unacceptable on ecomonic scale by rice growers. A perennial issue facing rice farmers in rice-wheat system is pest outbreak with weeds taking central stage. The advent and persistence of recalcitrant, hard-to-control weed like wild rice-weedy ricelred rice is one of the major challenges before rice farmers. The main sources of wild infestation are cultivated rice seeds contaminated with weed seeds and weed seed bank in soil. The weed affects rice yield because of its high competitive ability. The red rice contamination at harvest requires extra milling and reduces grain quality. The close similarity between red rice and commercial varieties has prevented the management of this weed. The herbicidal management has also not been yet found successful against this weed in cropped field. An integration of preventive, pre- and post-emergence methods of weed control, including ecological principles and herbicide can be employed for effective control of wild rice.
