They argue that the first hunter-gatherers to develop rice agriculture must have done so in this southern zone, within the apparent present-day geographic range of wild rice.

他们认为，最早发展水稻农业的狩猎采集者一定是在这个南部地区，在现在野生水稻明显的地理范围内。

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Simple agriculture, in the shape of rice, arrived in Japan only two thousand five hundred years ago, but in pots, the Japanese were very much ahead of the game.

简单农业，比如稻米的种植，二千五百年前左右才流传到日本；然而在制造陶器方面，日本的表现绝对是全世界领先了。

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The U.S.Department of Agriculture estimates that worldwide rice consumption increased 0.9% last year, to nearly 424 million metric tons.Production increased less than 0.7%.

美国农业部估计全球对大米的消耗量在去年增加了0.9%，接近4.24亿公吨，而大米产量的增加则要少于0.7%。

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The Philippine Department of Agriculture and the International Rice Research Institute plan to launch a free service next month.

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Anna McClung heads a rice-breeding center for the United States Agriculture Department.

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Around 60% of methane released into the atmosphere comes from human activities such as farming, rice agriculture, fossil fuel exploitation, landfill and biomass burning, according to the WMO.

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The gene that lets the rice plant survive after being submerged in water comes from an archaic rice strain from before the dawn of agriculture, discovered by geneticists 50 years ago.

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Now four local companies, including one with links to Monsanto, have filed applications to permit the sale of their versions of genetically modified rice, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

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