Rice is popular mainstay that crosses cultures Arkansas and California lead the U.S. in producing the versaile grain

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | February 4, 1996| | Copyright

Among the many grains eaten the world over, no other comes close to rice in popularity. Rice figured on the menu of our prehistoric ancestors as far back as 5,000 years ago, and is still a daily staple for more than half the world's inhabitants. Although per capita consumption of rice has climbed to more than 20 pounds per year in the United States, it hardly compares with a country like Burma, where each citizen is said to eat more than 500 pounds of the grain annually.

Today, California supplies 20% of the country's rice, placing it second only to Arkansas in the field of rice ...

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