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Grain

Rice

📍 Kenya

Click a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.

1 2 3 4 5
Sow Harvest
Sow
Mar
Harvest
Aug
Growing period
120 - 160 days
Seeding rate
80 - 100 kg/ha
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Harvest — this part of the plant

Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .

Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .

Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.

Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .

Local note

Based on similar agro-ecological conditions in another country — confirm with local extension.
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Where Rice grows in Kenya

wet irrigated

Lower midland zone 3(LM3)

800-about 1300 m asl in Eastern Kenya & 1500 m asl in Western. Warm, annual mean temp. 21-24oC. Mean min.more than 14oC. Semi-humid; annual average precipation at least 50-65% of potential evaporation.

other

Lower midland zone 4(LM4)

800-about 1300 m asl in Eastern Kenya & 1500 m asl in Western. Warm, annual mean temp. 21-24oC. Mean min.more than 14oC. Transitional; annual average precipation 40-50% of potential evaporation (or more in bimodal rainfall areas).

wet irrigated

Lowerland zone 3(L3)

0-800 m asl. Hot, annual mean temp. more than 24oC. Semi-humid; annual average precipation at least 50-65% of potential evaporation.

other

Lowerland zone 4(L4)

0-800 m asl. Hot, annual mean temp. more than 24oC. Transitional; annual average precipation 40-50% of

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