Question: Where was rice imported from to the Classical world?
About the article "Rice", section "Europe".

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Rice was known to the Classical world, being imported from Egypt, and perhaps west Asia.
It was known to Greece by returning soldiers from Alexander the Great's military expedition to Asia.
Large deposits of rice from the first century A.D. have been found in Roman camps in Germany.
The Moors brought Asiatic rice to the Iberian Peninsula in the 10th century.
Records indicate it was grown in Valencia and Majorca.
In Majorca, rice cultivation seems to have stopped after the Christian conquest, although historians are not certain.
Muslims also brought rice to Sicily, where it was an important crop long before it is noted in the plain of Pisa (1468) or in the Lombard plain (1475), where its cultivation was promoted by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and demonstrated in his model farms.
After the 15th century, rice spread throughout Italy and then France, later propagating to all the continents during the age of European exploration.
In European Russia, a short-grain, starchy rice similar to the Italian varieties, has been grown in the Krasnodar Krai, and known in Russia as "Kuban Rice" or "Krasnodar Rice".
In the Russian Far East several "japonica" cultivars are grown in Primorye around the Khanka lake.
Increasing scale of rice production in the region has recently brought criticism towards growers' alleged bad practices in regards to the environment.
In April 2007, animal feed provider Wilbur-Ellis issued a recall of rice protein it supplies to pet food companies because it may contain melamine.
The rice protein was imported from Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co. Ltd. in China, a company spokesman said. 
Rice was born in Perrysville, Ohio on November 18, 1835 to Clark Hammond Rice and Catherine (Mowers) Rice.
He pursued in classical studies, attended Antioch College, graduated from Union College and studied law. 
Rice production in South Korea is important to the food supply in the country, with rice being a common part of the Korean diet.
In 2009, South Korea produced 3,899,036 metric tonnes (4,297,951 tons) of rice.
Rice is the most important crop in South Korea.
As noted by Donald S. Macdonald, however, rising wage levels and land values have made it expensive to produce.
Rice represented about 90 percent of total grain production and over 40 percent of farm income; the 1988 rice crop was 6.5 million tons.
Rice was imported in the 1980s, but the amount depended on the success of domestic harvests.
The government's rice support program reached a record US$1.9 billion in 1986, as compared with US$890 million in 1985.
By raising procurement prices by 14 percent over the 1986 level, Seoul achieved a rice price structure that was about five times that of the world market in 1987. 
Haiti is an excellent example of a developing country negatively affected by agricultural subsidies in the developed world.
Haiti is a nation with the capacity to produce rice and was at one time self-sufficient in meeting its own needs.
At present, Haiti does not produce enough to feed its people; 60 percent of the food consumed in the country is imported.
Following advice to liberalize its economy by lowering tariffs, domestically produced rice was displaced by cheaper subsidised rice from the United States.
The Food and Agriculture Organization describes this liberalization process as being the removal of barriers to trade and a simplification of tariffs, which lowers costs to consumers and promotes efficiency among producers.
Opening up Haiti's economy granted consumers access to food at a lower cost; allowing foreign producers to compete for the Haitian market drove down the price of rice.
However, for Haitian rice farmers without access to subsidies, the downward pressure on prices led to a decline in profits.
Subsidies received by American rice farmers, plus increased efficiencies, made it impossible for their Haitian counterparts to compete.
According to Oxfam and the International Monetary Fund, tariffs on imports fell from 50 percent to three percent in 1995 and the nation is currently importing 80 percent of the rice it consumes.
The United States Department of Agriculture notes that since 1980, rice production in Haiti has been largely unchanged, while consumption on the other hand, is roughly eight times what it was in that same year.
Haiti is among the top three consumers of long grain milled rice produced in the United States.
As rice farmers struggled to compete, many migrated from rural to urban areas in search of alternative economic opportunities.