**3. Problems and opportunities through SWOT analysis on rice production in NEH region**

As the rice crop is grown in the NEH Region under widely diverse agro-climatic conditions resulted from varied altitudinal, physiographic, edaphic, rainfall, etc. conditions, there is immense variability among the rice cultivation practices as well as rice cultivars from one place to another. Hence, the SWOT analysis on rice cultivation in the NEH Region may clarify the problems and opportunities of rice production in the region as under as given in [8, 9]:

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