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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.
TODAY Today, rice is grown and harvested on every continent except Antarctica, where conditions make its growth impossible. The majority of all rice produced comes from India, China, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, and Bangladesh.Asian farmers still account for 92-percent of the world's total rice production.ISTORY There are many unproven mythological tales as to how rice came to be, though historians hold little or no stock in any. Most believe the roots of rice come from 3000 BC India, where natives discovered the plant growing in the wild and began to experiment with it.