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Rice with Spice ls Twice as N ice

Hinduism today, 2021-04, Vol.43 (2), p.34-35

Copyright Hinduism Today Apr-Jun 2021 ;ISSN: 0896-0801 ;EISSN: 2691-4220

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  • Title:
    Rice with Spice ls Twice as N ice
  • Author: Sadasivanathaswami
  • Subjects: Agriculture ; Asian people ; Grain ; Taste
  • Is Part Of: Hinduism today, 2021-04, Vol.43 (2), p.34-35
  • Description: Did you know that rice yields 6,000 pounds per acre and that 25% of the meager 20 pounds of rice each American consumes in a year is imbibed as beer or added to pet food? "As rice goes, so will go the world's encounter with starvation," Dr. Charles Balach, the Texas-based guru of America's rice breeding program, now retired, told me when I spoke with him. Rice may sustain half the world, but in America it has been an export commodity known only in an insipid encounter with an anonymous soup ingredient or as a rare substitute for potatoes. There is a rice revolution going on in North America, and a smaller one in Europe, driven by the West's newfound awareness of the health benefits of traditional Asian rices and an expanding population of rice-consuming ethnic groups. [...]goo million pounds last year, nearly 10% of all the rice consumed in America.
  • Publisher: Kapaa: Hinduism Today
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0896-0801
    EISSN: 2691-4220
  • Source: Open Access: Freely Accessible Journals by multiple vendors
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