How to Keep the Rice Bowl Full. / David Lague.
by Lague, David; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 57Health. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2001; Hinduism Today, 2001ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Cookery -- Asian | Cookery (Rice) | Food -- Religious aspects | Agriculture -- Cambodia | Agriculture -- China | Rice | Rice farmers | Rice trade | Water-supply -- AgriculturalDDC classification: 050 Summary: HOW TO KEEP THE RICE BOWL FULL -- "A crisis looms. Water levels are falling, populations are rising. Asia faces a tough challenge: to keep the region fed by growing more rice with less water. Experts say the solution lies in developing a strain of rice which grows in dry paddies." (FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW) This article examines how researchers are trying to develop ways to grow rice with less water to help production in Asia.Summary: BLESSED RICE -- "Deep down beneath the granite mountains of Colorado...chambers, maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture, hold one of the strategic guarantors or human survival--16,474 varieties of rice...Americans are relative newcomers to rice cultivation, with a mere 300 years spent growing a handful of types...There is a rice revolution going on in North America, and a smaller one in Europe. Basically, when immigration laws changed to allow more Asians in, millions answered the call." (HINDUISM TODAY) This article discusses the history of rice cultivation, describes how the grain is prepared and relays that there are several cultures that subsist on rice.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: How to Keep the Rice Bowl Full, Sept. 6, 2001; pp. 40-43.
Originally Published: Blessed Rice, May/June 2001; pp. 50-53.
HOW TO KEEP THE RICE BOWL FULL -- "A crisis looms. Water levels are falling, populations are rising. Asia faces a tough challenge: to keep the region fed by growing more rice with less water. Experts say the solution lies in developing a strain of rice which grows in dry paddies." (FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW) This article examines how researchers are trying to develop ways to grow rice with less water to help production in Asia.
BLESSED RICE -- "Deep down beneath the granite mountains of Colorado...chambers, maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture, hold one of the strategic guarantors or human survival--16,474 varieties of rice...Americans are relative newcomers to rice cultivation, with a mere 300 years spent growing a handful of types...There is a rice revolution going on in North America, and a smaller one in Europe. Basically, when immigration laws changed to allow more Asians in, millions answered the call." (HINDUISM TODAY) This article discusses the history of rice cultivation, describes how the grain is prepared and relays that there are several cultures that subsist on rice.
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