Rice Museum

Muzium Padi National Rice Museum, Gunung Keriang, Kedah, Malaysia
The Rice Museum, or Muzium Padi, in Kedah is located at the foot of Gunung Keriang just north of Alor Setar.

It was built on land belonging to MADA (Malaysian Agricultural Development Authority) at a cost of RM24.7 million. The museum building resembles bushels of harvested paddy stalks.

Throughout the Rice Museum, the rice motif is repeated everywhere, on the banisters, and even on the fence and gate outside.

This is the Rice Bowl State of Malaysia.

Paddy derived from Malay word padi which means rice plant.

Southern & Eastern Asia are rice growing countries.Rice is the second largest cereal crop in the world.

Paddy cultivation are traditional and modern methods.Paddy is planted from seeds.Seed are soaked for 24 hours.Then farmers drain the seeds and incubate the seeds for another 24 hours to germinate.

Later they sow the pre-germinated seeds evenly in a seed beds.It takes 105 to 125 days (3 1/2 months to 4 months ) for the seed to grow into rice plants and ripe.

First the paddy field must be plough so as to loosen the soil. In the past they use a buffalo to pull the plough but today modern argiculture has changed the way of paddy planting. They will use the machine to plough.

Paddy fields requires plenty of water., therefore in Kedah, the Agriculture department with the assistance from the State Goverment, built canals linking to rivers.

This to ensure that there is always sufficient water to support the paddy field.

Paddy Agriculture Equipments

> Tajak ( a kind of clearing the land equipment)

> Sabit ( a cresent cutter)

> Kuku Kambing

> Bajak (Plough )

States in Malaysia -Paddy is cultivated

- Perlis

-Kedah

-Perak

-Kelantan

-Seberang Perai ( Penang )