Rice production in Europe is about 2.9 million tons from 431 thousand hectares and Italy and Spain comprise about 70% of total production. Japonica-type rices are grown 290 thousand hectares share of 70% of acreage and indica-type rice cultivated 124 thousand hectares share of 30% acreage. The major bodies of rice research in European countries including Russian Federations are government organizations and academic sectors. However, collaboration works with Korea in rice research areas are insignificant. Rice varieties catalogued in European Communities are 432 varieties. 280 varieties which comprise approximately 64.8% of registered varieties are originated from Italy and Spain. Since 2006, acreage of Clearfield rice is continuously growing with advantage of controlling wild rice. 35% of total rice growing area adopt Clearfield technology in Italy. Commercial seed demand in European countries are 117 thousand ton per annual and average sowing rate is 170~180kg per hectors. European commission estimated 1.1 million ton of rice is short every year from total demands and forecast 1.4 million tons of milled rice will need to imported from other countries until 2020. In order to solve demand/supply imbalance, cultivation of high yielding varieties and expanding of growing areas are needed. However, bottleneck of expanding rice growing acreage is relative high production cost(200 USD) compare to production cost in America(104~180 USD).

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• 이기환(경북대학교 농업과학기술연구소, Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kyungpook National University) | Gihwan Yi Corresponding author