Paddy and Poverty live together is the main say in developing and under-developed countries. The aming opportunity for Rice Farmers Rice Farmers is less when compared to those engaged in plantation, horticulture and cash crop farming as the number of man days work requirement for rice farming is less than that for other farming systems. Hence the customary saying that THE RICE FARMERS BORN IN DEBT, LIVE IN DEBT AND DIE IN DEBT. This situation can be wiped out only by providing opportunities for enhancing their earning capacity by fully utilizing the entire Rice Biomass by technological intervention with value addition.

M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation