<;P>;PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive material for inhibiting rice from absorbing cadmium which hardly causes alkaline damage, inhibits unpolished rice from absorbing cadmium and does not require either time or labor, and to provide a method for cultivating rice. <;P>;SOLUTION: The material for inhibiting rice from absorbing cadmium is used when cultivating rice, and mainly consists of molasses. The method for cultivating rice includes applying molasses to a farm field in the time of ear emergence of rice to cultivate the rice. <;P>;COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT