Rice in Odisha is synonymous with food, as is agriculture with rice. Rice covers about 69% of the cultivated area, covering about 63% area under food grains. during the last 35 years, the state's rice area has stagnated around 4 million hectares, about 10% of the total rice area of the country. Odisha's share in the country's rice production was more than 11% in the pre-HYV period, which gradually declined to 7.9% in 2008-09. Rice in Odisha is now grown on an area of 4.4 million hectares, which accounts for 91% of the area under cereals and contributes about 94% of total cereal production in the state. n Odisha, rice is grown under diverse ecosystems and a wide range of climatic conditions. The immense diversity in growth conditions makes classification and characterization of the rice environments. Rice-growing conditions largely influence the system of cultivation. The system of cultivation is determined by the land situation, soil type, class of rice, season, intensity and distribution of rainfall, irrigation resources, and availability of labor and Odisha has three systems of rice cultivation: dry, semi-dry, and wet. The dry system accounts for 18% of the rice area and the rest is shared by semi-dry and wet system.
Rice is cultivated on an area of 4.45 million hectares, which can be classified into seven different ecosystems: irrigated kharif (27.4%), rainfed upland (19.1%), medium land (12.4%), shallow lowland (22.5%), semi-deep (7.9%), deep (3.4%), and irrigated rabi (7.4%). Farmers have their own system of classification of rice environments such as uplands, medium lands, and lowlands, primarily on the basis of land topography and water regime.
The rice plant is located at Bhagada Village, Tehsil/PS - Bhandari Pokhari, Bhadrak District in the state of Odisha. The land belongs to both the existing promoters. Bhagada Village is located at the immediate vicinity of Chennai - Kolkata National Highways No - 5 with a distance of 10 kms from district headquarter Bhadrak and 100 kms from State Capital Bhubaneswar on the same route.
It is centrally located in the North Odisha region with easy and straight access to all the adjacent Districts like Balasore, Mayur Bhanj, Keonjhar, Jajpur and Kendrapada etc. These districts are prime producers of Paddy. Agriculture of paddy is the main occupation of these Districts. The site also has three major port links such as Dhamara port at a distance of 80 kms in the same district. Whereas the Paradeep port at a distance of 120 kms and Haldia port at a distance of 250 kms. The site has direct and single route NH access to bordering states Jharkhand and West Bengal.
