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Agriculture plays a vital role in the economy of Assam. Agriculture is the main source of occupation and livelihood support for 70 per cent of the rural population and more than 50% of total workforce directly or indirectly get employment from this sector. The contribution of the Agriculture (crops + livestock) sector to GSDP at current prices was 15.64% in 2019-20. Among major crops of Assam, rice plays significant role in the state economy. The soil, topography, rainfall and climate in the state are basically favorable for the cultivation of rice. During 2019-20, out of total major crops area of Assam 89 per cent of area belonged under rice cultivation. It was about 6.04 per cent of land area and contributed about 5.28 per cent of total rice production at national level. Another specialty is that the rice is traditionally-grown throughout the year viz. winter, autumn and summer seasons, with winter rice as the main crop. The area under autumn rice is 1.27 lakh hectares, winter rice is 18.78 lakh hectares, and summer rice is 3.96 lakh hectares during the year 2019-20. All the agricultural programmes have been assigned with high priority in the successive plan periods to maximize rice production. These efforts have no doubt contributed some transformation in the place of development under this sector, but much more still remains to be done to bring the situation compatible with other developed States of the country. The proposed study focus only on status and changing trend of rice cultivation among major food grains production in Assam which completely depends on secondary sources of data. The required data would collect from government publications, economic survey of state government, various journals and books.