Rice Production and Processing Sustainability presents the challenges and opportunities facing rice, a globally important crop as climate impact and environmental instability threaten production and ultimately food security. The book discusses corrective measures while also serving as an educational tool for readers who need to balance food production and environmental protection. Food production, like other industries worldwide, is experiencing revolutions in automation, artificial intelligence, digitization, big data, and bioinformatics. The simultaneous and increasingly volatile situation of environmental impact by climate requires careful and deliberate consideration of these issues and their potential impact on sustainability.

As rice must be produced en masse to support the rising global population, it must be done carefully, in balance, and at a rate that is sustainable in an ecosystem that is already unstable.

• Presents insights on ensuring optimal production of this key global food crop
• Balances rice crop production with environmental protection
• Explores the role of technology in rice crop production