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"In the Korean and Japanese language, the Chinese character for the rice' (米 ,kome?) is composed by two eights (八 ,hachi?) and ten (十 ,jū?) which is 88, eighty-eight (八十八 ,hachi-jū-hachi?). A proverbial saying in Japan states: "The farmer spends eighty-eight efforts on rice from planting to crop." This teaches the sense of mottainai and gratitude for the farmer and for rice itself."

[proverbial saying, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)]

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Uncooked, polished, white long-grain rice grains
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Unpolished long-grain rice grains with bran

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Polished Indian
sona masuri
rice grains
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In the News . . .

• Unraveling The Mystery Of A Rice Revolution -- NPR (03 May 2013)
  
  
• Rice Farming in India: 'Now I Produce Enough Food for My Family' -- [video] Guardian (05 March 2013)
  
  
• India farmers think big but grow micro to enrich their soil -- Guardian (n.d.)
  
  
• India's rice revolution: Chinese scientist questions massive harvests -- Guardian (23 February 2013)
  
  
• India's Rice Revolution -- Guardian (16 February 2013)
  • India's Rice Revolution – Audio Slideshow-- Guardian (15 February 2013)
    
    
• Salt-Tolerant Rice 'Could Aid Japan's Tsunami Farmers' -- BBC News (24 January 2012)
  
  
• Evolution and Domestication of Seed Structure Shown to Use Same Genetic Mutation -- ScienceDaily (07 July 2011)
  
  
• Early Agricultural Piracy Informs the Domestication of Rice -- Science Daily (09 June 2011)
  
  
• Farmers Were Genetic Breeders 10,000 Years Ago -- NewScientist (06 June 2011)
  
  
• Rice traced to single domestication event in China -- BBC News (03 May 2011)

Oryza sativa   Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Angiosperms Class: Monocots Subclass: Commelinids Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Subfamily:   Tribe:   Genus: Oryza Species: O. sativa     Binomial name Oryza sativa Wikispecies

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