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International  Year of Rice 2004
The story of rice grain
Rice as world food
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SMALL FARMERS

In many areas of the world, rice farming is main gain source .
In the poorest areas worldwide, rice is a very important element for families support and rice fields are the largest job source.

About 4/5 of world rice production derives from small producers, living in the developing countries; supporting and improving rice farmings, also, means improving large rural areas welfare worldwide.

To help developing countries, where hunger is a real problem, they are trying to increase harvests yeld , in order to promote countryside development.
Together with new methods for farming increase, they are righting traditional learnings up, all those learnings handed down from generation to generation.
Combining modern and traditional learnings, they will be able to protect the environment and to guarantee a larger food production, all over the world.

 
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