Currently, more than 150 million people in South Asia depend on local rice and wheat crops.

目前，南亚有超过1.5亿人以当地的水稻和小麦作物为生。

youdao

Ostensibly its purpose is to provide more irrigation for local rice paddies, and some hydroelectricity.

表面上，建造它的目的是为当地提供更好的稻田灌溉及水利发电。

youdao

The milling, cooking, eating and nutritive quality for 86 local rice varieties in Hebei were determined and analysed in the experiment.

对河北省86个地方稻米品种的加工品质、蒸煮和食用品质及营养品质进行了检测与分析。

youdao

Local rice production fell after the countries reduced farm supports and import taxes under free market reforms.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Critics like former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri with the opposition Fretilin party say this policy hurts local rice producers who cannot compete.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

The entire supply chain can be affected, from farmers to wholesalers to merchants selling rice in local markets.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

In response to the public uproar, health officials in Hunan, the Chinese province that produces the most rice, announced on Tuesday the three local rice mills implicated in the sale of the tainted rice had been ordered to suspend production.

WSJ: China Seeks to Calm Anxiety Over Rice

Food-safety officials in the southern province of Guangdong on Wednesday released the results of tests that showed less than 5% of local rice supplies contained excessive levels of cadmium, a carcinogenic heavy metal that can wreak havoc on the kidneys and weaken bones if ingested in large quantities.

WSJ: China Seeks to Calm Anxiety Over Rice

Today, it is as much an accepted part of a Bogota Sunday as a tamale (a local favourite of rice, chicken, pork, egg and vegetables wrapped in a palm leaf) for breakfast.

BBC: Reclaiming the streets in Bogota