What is rice? Is it a seed? What do you plant to grow rice?

Rice is actually a term for 2 types of grass grown in southeast asia and africa. the seed of the plant is what we wat and it is classified as a grain you need high rainfall for its production and large areas. Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima are the species of grass wrom which the grain comes

Rice is actually a grain. The following is how rice is farmed and harvested. Little rice seedlings are reverently hand planted in a small backyard paddie in Kyoto, Japan. Space age technology computers, lasers and airplanes are used to prepare the soil and sow the rice seeds on mega farms in eastern Texas. Both ways rice will still miraculously emerge from its meadow-like sea, transforming the dark glassy surface of the paddie into a shimmering chartreuse blanket. As the seedlings mature, they draw nutrients from the paddie water. The same water keeps the weed population under control. Eventually small green flowers take shape and the wind pollinates the plants. The paddies of rice change from green to golden yellow to the familiar pale honey color of parched straw. The levees are opened, the water is drained and the soil is given time to set. In the United States where the rice industry is thoroughly mechanized, a giant combine with an air conditioned cab for the operator, rolls across the field cutting the plants and separating the rough or paddie rice from the straw. The rough rice is transported to enormous dryers where the moisture content is reduced. The rice is now ready for milling. The milling process, although it can be extremely high tech and efficient, is really very simple. Converted or parboiled rice is steam pressure treated before it is hulled. The hull is removed in a sheller which is basically two rubber rollers that remove the hulls by friction. The rice emerges as brown rice. The bran is removed from the brown rice by abrasion as the grains are forced to rub against each other. Broken grains are sorted out as the rice is sifted through a series of screens. In the most sophisticated of mills a laser scanner spots discolored kernels and almost simultaneously manages to blast them aside with a stream of pressurized air. The rice is now ready for the market.

it's a kind of grain. many people in my country plant it.They are a farmer. i eat it everyday.