Plants3--Rice

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Rice

Peopleall over the worldeat rice.Millions ofpeoplein Asia, Africa and South Americaeatit every day of their lives. Some people eat almost nothing <but rice>.

      Rice is a kind of grass. There are morethan 7,000 kinds of rice. Farmers grow rice / in many countries, even inthe southern part of the United States and in eastern Australia.

No one reallyknowswhere rice came from. Some scientists think that it started togrow / in two places. They think that one kind of rice grew / insouthern Asia / thousands of years ago. SomeoneinChinawrote about it / almost 5,000 years ago. Another kindprobably grew / in West Africa. Other scientists think that rice came from India, and Indian travelers took it to other parts of theworld.    

 There are two main waysto grow rice. Upland rice grows / in dry soil. Most ricegrows / in wet soil. Peoplein manycountriesdoall of the work of growing rice/ by hand. This is thesame way(that) farmers worked/hundreds of years ago. In some countries, people now use machines / on theirrice farms. The farmers all use fertilizer. Some insects are enemies of rice.Farmers poison them.     

People use everypart of the rice plant. They make animal feedandriceoilfrom it. They also make baskets, brooms, rugs, sandals,and roofs for their houses. They burn dry rice plants in fires for cooking.