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589 million tones of paddy rice is produce a year. It varies from year to year, of course, but world production averages around 440 million metric tons a year. how ever much they feel like producing when they're not making a super computer.  they make 190 million tons of rice each year   *  p.s. 1.3 million tons a year.
The flexibility of the Thai farmer was evidenced by an unprecedented shift from rice production to other crops by a considerable number of households. In other cases, many farmers continued to produce rice for subsistence purposes while expanding their activities to grow market-oriented upland crops. In the mid-1980s, major export crops included not only rice and rubber but also maize, cassava, sugarcane, mung beans, tobacco, and sorghum.