Contents: Section I: Introduction. 1. Rice for food and livelihood security: status and strategies /A.S. Panwar, S.V. Ngachan and Anup Das. 2. Climatic normal’s for rice /A.S. Panwar and P. Choudhury. 3. Agro-climatic situations in relation to rice productivity in North East India /M. Datta. 4. Technology of flood prone rice/S.K. Rautaray. 5. Boro rice in Northeast India/P. K. Pathak. 6.Technology of rice production in Assam/A.K. Pathak. 7. Indigenous system of rice cultivation in Northeast India /A.S. Panwar, KohimaNoopur and S.V. Ngachan. 8. Basmati rice: pride of India/Ritesh Sharma and Pramod Tomar. Section II: Rice Improvement. 9. Rice genetic resources/A.K. Mahariya, Sanjay Gupta and Jogendra Singh. 10. Hybrid rice production technology/Sanjay Gupta, A. K.Mahariya and Jogendra Singh. 11 Rice biotechnology: methods and goals/Shiv Datt, V.P Bhadana, Sanjay Gupta and Jogendra Singh. 12. Applications of STMS markers in rice/Manjusha Verma, LalitArya, S K Singhand Zakir Hussain. 13. Biotic stress tolerant transgenic rice/LalitArya, Manjusha Verma, Dipnarayan Saha, S. K. Singhand Zakir Hussain. 14. Hybrid seed production technology for rice/Jogendra Singh, Sanjay Gupta, A. K. Mahariya and Shiv Datt. Section III Production Technology: 15. Physico-chemical changes in submerged soils/T. Ramesh, B.U. Choudhury and B.C. Varma. 16. Biological and chemical changes in rice soils of north-east India/Mausumi Raychaudhuri and S. Raychaudhuri. 17. Soil health management for rice/M. Datta, N.P. Singh and S.V. Ngachan. 18. Integrated nutrient management in rice/A.S. Panwar and Kohima Noopur. 19. Azolla biofertilizer for rice. 20 water management in rice. Section IV. Plant Protection: 21. Diseases management in rice. 22. Insect pest management in rice. 23. Weeds and their management in rice. 24. Pheromones for rice pest management. 25. Management of stored grain rice pests. Section V. Postharvest Technology: 26. specialty rice for value addition and profitability.