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  2. Perennial rice - Wikipedia

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    Were rice a perennial rather than an annual species, its continuously living roots and thick cover of vegetation would prevent such erosion, just as a planting of grass can prevent a roadside slope from washing away. Perennial rice could produce critically needed food year after year on the same plot of land without degrading the soil. [23]

  3. Rice polyculture - Wikipedia

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    The rice provides the fish with shelter and shade and a reduced water temperature, along with herbivorous insects and other small animals that feed on the rice. [7] Rice benefits from nitrogenous waste from the fish, while the fish reduce insect pests such as brown planthoppers , diseases such as sheath blight of rice , and weeds. [ 7 ]

  4. List of cooking vessels - Wikipedia

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    Dolsot – a small-sized cookware-cum-serveware made of agalmatolite, suitable for one to two servings of bap (cooked rice). [19] [20] [21] In Korean cuisine, various hot rice dishes such as bibimbap or gulbap (oyster rice) as well as plain white rice can be prepared and served in dolsot.

  5. History of rice cultivation - Wikipedia

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    One of the earliest known examples of companion planting is the growing of rice with Azolla, the mosquito fern, which covers the top of a fresh rice paddy's water, blocking out any competing plants, as well as fixing nitrogen from the atmosphere for the rice to use. The rice is planted when it is tall enough to poke out above the azolla.

  6. Archaeologists discover 10,000-year-old rice beer recipe in China

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    (A) Plant procurement: collecting wild plants and harvesting rice (B) plant processing: for food and pottery making (C) food processing: cooking food and making qu starter with molds, yeast, and ...

  7. Rice - Wikipedia

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    The rice plant can grow to over 1 m (3 ft) tall; if in deep water, it can reach a length of 5 m (16 ft). A single plant may have several leafy stems or tillers.The upright stem is jointed with nodes along its length; a long slender leaf arises from each node. [1]

  8. Built on backs of slaves: New mapping shows clearer picture ...

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    More than 236,000 acres of rice fields spanning 160 miles once covered coastal South Carolina, according to a recent mapping project that used modern tools to document the massive footprint of the ...

  9. Rice cultivation in Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    In the areas of lowest precipitation, or where weedy red rice is a significant problem, farmers follow a three year, three phase "old rotation" of rice-soybean-soybean. However, most Arkansas rice producers follow a two year, two phase crop rotation of rice following soybeans. [3]