people all over the world eat rice
People all over the world eat rice.Millions of people in Asia,Africa and South America eat itevery day of their lives.Some people eat almost nothing but rice.
Rice is a kind of grass.There are more than 7000 kinds of the United states and in eastern Australia.
No one knows where rice came from.Some scientists think it started to grow in two places.They think that one kind of rice grew in Southern Asia thousands of years ago.Someone in China wrote about it almost five thousand years ago.Another kind probably grew in west Africa.Other scientists think rice came from India,and Indian travelers took it to other parts of the world.There are two main ways to grow rice.Upland rice grows in dry soil.Most rice grows in wet soil.People in many countries do all of the work by hard.This is the same way farmers worked hundreds of years ago.Some countries now use machines on their rice farms.The farmers all use fertilizer.Some insects are enemies of rice.Farmers poisom them.
People use every part of the rice plant.They make animal feed and rice oil from it.They also make baskets,rugs and roofs for their houses.They burn dry rice plants for cooking
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