Whorl maggot; Trips; Stem borers; Gall midge; Brown planthopper; Whitebacked planthopper; Smaller browns planthopper, Rice delphacid; Green leafhopper; Zigzag leafhopper; Leaffolder; Caseworm; Rice bug; Armyworm; Cutworm; Greenhorned caterpillar; Green semilooper; Rice skipper; Crickets; Short-horned grassnopper; Ants; Mealybugs; Hispa; Leptispa; Mole cricket; Black bugs; Rats; Birds; Bacterial leaf blight; Leaf streak; Foot rot; Stripe; Blast; Sheath blight; False smut; Brown spot; Narrow brown leaf spot; Stem rot; Sheath rot; Index; Leaf scald; Bakanae and foot rot diseases; Gall dwarf; Grassy stunt; Hoja blanca; Orange leaf; Ragged stunt; Transitory yellowing; Tungro; Yellow dwarf; Yellow mottle; Stem nematode; Root-knot nematode; Cyperus difformis; Cyperus iria; Cyperus rotundus; Digitaria ciliaris; D. setigera; Echinochloa colona; Echinochloa crus-galli; E. glabrescens; Eleusine indica; Fimbristylis miliacea; Ipomoea aquatica; Ischaemum rugosum; Leptochloa chinensis; Monochoria vaginalis; Oryza sativa; Sphenoclea zeylanica; Nitrogen deficiency; Phosphorus deficiency; Potassium deficiency; Sulfur deficiency; Silicon deficiency; Zinc deficiency; Salinity; Alkalinity; Iron toxicity; Peat (organic0; Boron toxicity; Aluminum toxicity; Manganese toxicity.

The importance of rive as a world crops, and its principal characteristics. The modern rice plant and the new technology: Greater potentials for rice production in the tropics. Problems of postharvest technology. Rice marketing. Some successful rice production programs. Promising rice research. Elements of a successful accelerated rice production program. A national rice program: putting the ingredients together.

Chapter 1: Rice and its environment. Chapter 2: The geography of rice (oryza sativa L.). Chapter 3: The hidrology of rice-lands. Chapter 4: Classification of soils on which rice is Grown. Chapter 5: Soil-forming process in aquatic rice lands. Chapter 6: Soil and land properties that affect the growth of rice. Chapter 7: Elements for evaluation of land for rice growing.

Introduction; Predators; Parasites; Pathogens.