Rice | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:02:35 1 Etymology
00:04:10 2 Characteristics
00:05:14 3 Cooking
00:06:38 3.1 Preparation
00:08:57 3.2 Dishes
00:09:58 4 Food
00:10:07 4.1 Nutrition
00:13:12 4.2 Arsenic concerns
00:15:14 4.3 iBacillus cereus/i
00:15:58 5 Rice-growing environments
00:16:50 6 History of domestication and cultivation
00:17:01 6.1 Origins
00:21:48 6.2 Southeast Asia
00:25:52 6.3 Korean peninsula and Japanese archipelago
00:27:03 6.4 South Asia
00:28:52 6.5 Other hypotheses
00:30:53 7 Regional history
00:31:03 7.1 Africa
00:31:48 7.2 Asia
00:32:17 7.2.1 Nepal
00:33:03 7.2.2 Philippines
00:35:34 7.2.3 Sri Lanka
00:36:38 7.2.4 Thailand
00:39:00 7.2.5 Companion plant
00:39:37 7.3 Middle East
00:40:19 7.4 Europe
00:42:16 7.5 Caribbean and Latin America
00:43:36 7.6 United States
00:48:47 7.7 Australia
00:51:14 8 Production and commerce
00:51:25 8.1 Production
00:53:49 8.2 Processing
00:58:38 8.3 Harvesting, drying and milling
01:00:47 8.4 Distribution
01:01:41 8.5 Trade
01:04:57 8.6 World's most productive rice farms and farmers
01:06:19 9 Price
01:08:05 9.1 Worldwide consumption
01:09:29 10 Environmental impacts
01:11:12 10.1 Rainfall
01:11:21 10.2 Temperature
01:11:53 10.3 Solar radiation
01:12:13 10.4 Atmospheric water vapor
01:12:33 10.5 Wind
01:12:57 11 Pests and diseases
01:13:55 11.1 Insects
01:14:36 11.2 Diseases
01:15:14 11.3 Nematodes
01:16:07 11.4 Other pests
01:16:27 11.5 Integrated pest management
01:20:59 11.6 Parasitic weeds
01:21:17 12 Ecotypes and cultivars
01:25:58 13 Biotechnology
01:26:08 13.1 High-yielding varieties
01:27:51 13.2 Future potential
01:29:16 13.3 Golden rice
01:30:30 13.4 Expression of human proteins
01:31:15 13.5 Flood-tolerant rice
01:32:20 13.6 Drought-tolerant rice
01:34:12 13.7 Salt-tolerant rice
01:36:43 13.8 Environment-friendly rice
01:37:47 14 Meiosis and DNA repair
01:39:02 15 Cultural roles of rice



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SUMMARY
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Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia. It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest worldwide production (rice, 741.5 million tonnes in 2014), after sugarcane (1.9 billion tonnes) and maize (1.0 billion tonnes).

Since sizable portions of sugarcane and maize crops are used for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one-fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by humans. There are many varieties of rice and culinary preferences tend to vary regionally.

Rice, a monocot, is normally grown as an annual plant, although in tropical areas it can survive as a perennial and can produce a ratoon crop for up to 30 years. Rice cultivation is well-suited to countries and regions with low labor costs and high rainfall, as it is labor-intensive to cultivate and requires ample water. However, rice can be grown practically anywhere, even on a steep hill or mountain area with the use of water-controlling terrace systems. Although its parent species are native to Asia and certain parts of Africa, centuries of trade and exportation have made it commonplace in many cultures worldwide.

The traditional method for cultivating rice is flooding the fields while, or after, setting the young seedlings. This simple method requires sound planning and servicing of the water damming and channeling, but reduces the growth of less robust weed and pest plants that have no submerged growth state, and deters vermin. While flooding is not mandatory for the cultivation of rice, all other methods of irrigation require higher effort in weed and pest control during growth periods and a different approach ...