Under the scenario of an escalating population and an epoch of climate variability, increasing the production of rice to confront the food security and overcome the human demands from the ever shrinking land resources have emerged as an obligatory step in augmenting the nations’ economy. Rice productivity system is subjected to wide aberrations in the economic output and identifying the impact of weather variation at different phonological events of the crop is the predominant area of concern as it may help in understanding their response in terms of final productivity and enhance the functioning of the yield predicting models. | Weather manifested rice cultivation - A review