Production
of rice with traits for creating new demand
Sachio Maruyama
maruyama@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp
Abstract
Rice
cultivars with new grain quality have been developed for creating new demand.
The low-amylose cultivars have good quality processing into frozen cooked rice,
the low-glutelin cultivars are for patients with kidney diseases, and the large-embryo
cultivars are processed pre-germinated brown rice as health foods. Another
approach for creating new demand is forage rice, in which whole rice plant is
used as a feed for dairy cows and beef cattle. The cultivars for whole crop
silage, the lactic acid bacteria for rice forage, and the roll bale harvester
for paddy field work have been developed for the recycling system of rice
cultivation and livestock farming.