Rice_net:EU-India Rice districts Network promotion trough agro-economical cross cultural and technical actions

Main objective of the project is to foster a district to district awareness and cooperative network between India and EU, namely in the sector of rice through agronomical, economical and cross cultural studies and actions to raise awareness of India in the EU and vice-versa. Both the areas have the concept of rice district: European areas form an homogeneous “EU rice macro-district” and their agricultural, economical, historical, and geographical peculiarities have driven the development of earlier rural areas. The rice production in India has affected districts cultural inheritance (folkloristic issues, culture, food, music, dance, film, etc) and gained commercial and technical interest from rest of the world. RICE_NET (www.ricenet.org) will study both similarities and differences of districts from several points of view, through studies, research and joint activities also in media and communication sectors. Main objectives are the strengthening of agro-technical dialogue, cultural information exchange through geographical and other matters, increasing of enterprise networking in the rice sector.