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Default why rice is more important in Asia ????????

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:38:33 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

> On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:24:31 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:37:50 +0000, Tyson
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Rice are mostly grown in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh. I

>>
>> The country with the largest production of rice is China (by far).
>> India is second, Indonesia third, and Bangladesh fourth. China
>> produces as much as the second and third, India and Indonesia, put
>> together.
>>
>> Pakistan is way down the list, tieing for 11th place with the USA.
>> Pakistan produces 10 million metric tons a year, just over 1/20 of
>> what China does, 197 million metric tons.

>
> I don't know why that OP is going around that Evil Foodbanter
> web<->news gateway site reposting articles from other web sites for no
> apparent reason. he/she/it has does this in a bunch of food groups.
> And probably non-food groups as well (but I wouldn't know ;-)
>
> ObAsianFood: Sorry to see this group dead lately. Now that I take
> pictures of most of my food I cook/eat I post all my Asian pictures in
> alt.binaries.food.
>
> -sw


you should post the pointers at rec.food.cooking as well. (i thought you
were.)

your pal,
blake