Rice: Relationships

Every element and industry that Rice is linked to, and how. Each pair has its own card explaining the relationships between the two.

• Water: Paddy rice is one of the thirstiest field crops, using about 30% of the world's irrigation water; in Punjab it has driven groundwater extraction well beyond recharge, and India's rice exports carried about 40 billion m³ of virtual water abroad in 2023-24. (researched)
• Bioethanol: In India, rice from the government's surplus stocks has become a major ethanol feedstock, sold to distilleries at a fixed price. Its use rises and falls with official judgements about food stocks, so the link is a policy valve rather than a market price relationship. (researched)
• Energy in farming: Energy in farming needs rice; their prices have moved together.
• DAP and MAP: Their prices have moved together.
• Education and research: Education and research depends on rice.
• Food and beverage processing: Food and beverage processing depends on rice.
• Healthcare services: Healthcare services depends on rice.
• Hospitality and tourism: Hospitality and tourism depends on rice.
• Insecticides: Their prices have moved together.
• Urea: Their prices have moved together.
• Wheat: Their prices have moved together.
• Wholesale and retail trade: Wholesale and retail trade depends on rice.