- Rice is a crop of berberun grass. The ancient agricultural crops come from two continents of Asia and tropical and subtropical West Africa.
- Rice plant is one of the most important cultivation plants in civilization. Although mainly refers to the type of cultivated plant, rice is also used to refer to several species of the same genus, commonly referred to as wild rice. Rice is thought to have originated from India or Indochina and entered Indonesia brought by an ancestor who migrated from Asian mainland around 1500 SM.
In 1984 the Indonesian government was awarded by the United Nations (FAO) for succeeding in increasing rice production for up to 20 years from the world's largest rice importer into a self-sufficient rice country.
Rice is a plant that is widely grown by Indonesian farmers, especially in the rainy season. Rice has the scientific name of oriva sativa, from familly Poaccae (Gramincae), because rice is the food needs of the Indonesian population.