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'California’s rice growing region is located in the Sacramento Valley spanning an area 100 miles North of Sacramento. Every year California’s estimated 2,500 rice growers produce mostly Medium Grain Calrose Japonica rice on around 500,000 acres of land producing around 45 million cwt, or over 2 million metric tons (MMT) of paddy rice. California rice is typically planted from mid-April through late May and harvested from mid-September through early November.
USA Rice is grown in 6 states: California, Louisiana, Missouri, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas. On average about 3 million acres are planted with California planting around 550,000 per year. About 7-8 MMT of milled rice is produced per year in the United States which is around 2% of the world’s production. Rice is a primary staple for about half of the world’s population'