Rice:
1. Rice is the staple food crop of a majority of the people in India.
2. India is the second largest producer of rice in the world.
3. Rice is grown in the plains of north and north-eastern India, coastal areas and the deltaic regions.
4. Canal irrigation and tubewells have made it possible to grow rice in areas of less rainfall such as Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh and parts of Rajasthan.