2 Rice has been feeding us for 5,000 years.
3 There are more than 40,000 varieties of rice that grow across every continent execept on Antarctica
4 In India, rice is associated with prosperity and with the Hindu goddness of wealth, Lakshml.
5 Rice is the symbol of life and fertility, which is why rice was traditionally thrown at weddings.
6 In 1997, the Laotian news agency reported that farmers had successfully completed trial using pig manure as a snail repellent on rice crops.
7 More than half the labour force in Thailand is involved in rice production.
8 In Burma the average polulation consumes about 500 pound of rice a year.
9 A Talwanese artist has carved a portrait of the new chinese leader XI Jinping on a grain of rice.
10 IN 2008, a craze was started in japan for rice folled bags called ''Dakigokochl'' for new born babies, They were shaped like a bundled baby and printed with the newborn's face and name.
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