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	The Global Grain
		Rice is heavily cultivated in 89 countries around the world with a yield of nearly 500 million metric tons.
		The rice belt is distributed geographically over a wide range; from hot Australian and Egyptian deserts, to the cool Himalayan foothills of Nepal.
		Rice is used on all occasions in Pakistan: festive, mournful, religious and in ordinary routine life.
	www.barkatrice.com /rice_theglobalgrain.htm (331 words)

	Global Grain :: Rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Almost since the immemorial times, rice has been relished by man. Today, rice is the most vital food crop in the world and a staple food for more than a half of the world's population.
		Rice is heavily cultivated in 89 countries around the world with a yield of nearly 500 million metric tons.
		The rice belt is distributed geographically over a wide range; from hot Australian and Egyptian deserts, to the cool Himalayan foothills of Nepal.
	www.mothersrice.com /global.htm (315 words)

	The Art of Rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rituals honoring the “Rice Mother,” the goddess of the sacred grain, are prevalent throughout Asia.
		The aim of “The Art of Rice” is to expose audiences to the vast and interrelated historical cultures of rice in Asia, as well as to document the ancient rituals and customs being swept away by agricultural modernity and increasing globalism.
		Explicit fertility rituals and symbols are recurring motifs throughout the rice belt.
	www.neh.fed.us /news/humanities/2003-09/artofrice.html (1616 words)

	Financial Review: Japanese boil-over: rice ravagers go against the grain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Japan calls itself a "rice culture" because the roots of its group-oriented society are seen as lying in traditional rural villages that co-operated to grow the labour-intensive grain.
		The ruse was discovered when a housewife called a supermarket to complain that rice she had bought contained grains that were longer than usual.
		After carefully cooking a batch of expensive rice and a cheaper supermarket blend in exactly the same way, they ate the two kinds of rice, which is always considered the main dish in a meal, with fish and pickles.
	afr.com /cgi-bin/newtextversions.pl?pagetype=printer&path=/articles/2003/10/31/1067566080169.html (1123 words)

	Scripps Howard News Service
		And even though the rice grown by the Sacramento company, Ventria Bioscience, would be required to be planted far from California's rice belt, milled in separate facilities and trucked in separate vehicles, Carrancho doesn't want to take the risk that that all those regulations will be lost in translation.
		The proteins developed in the seed of a rice plant could be used to create a medicine used to combat anemia and diarrhea, among the world's leading causes of death for children under 5.
		Rice farmers such as Greg Massa, a Colusa County grower who has a master's degree in biology, doesn't believe there's a legitimate scientific reason for the rush to approve the genetically engineered crop.
	www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=RICEFARMERS-04-08-04 (993 words)

	Rice is Nice
		When rice is mature, sophisticated combines cut the rice, separate grain from stalk, and funnel the grains into trucks that transport it to dryers.
		White rice is milled, polished, enriched with vitamins and minerals, and stripped of its bran layer.
		Rice is a staple for two-thirds of the world's population, and its consumption is at an all-time high in the United States, according to the USA Rice Federation.
	www.texas-ec.org /publications/texascooppower/archive/1002rice.aspx (1024 words)

	Grain Belt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grain Belt is composed of the US's prairie -region states across the northern Midwest.
		This region produces a substantial amount of the world's grain and soybeans.
		Categories : Belt regions of the United States
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grain_Belt (90 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Biotech co. to grow modified rice crop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The protein produced by the rice could be used in oral rehydration treatments for severe diarrhea.
		The subcommittee of the California Rice Commission voted 6-5 to approve the plan Monday, despite warnings from several rice farmers that any contamination of food rice crops could devastate the $500 million industry.
		Critics, including local rice farmers and state and national groups that oppose genetically modified crops, told the panel Monday that allowing the altered crop could undermine the progress California rice has made in overseas markets, especially in Japan.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/03/30/biotech_co_to_grow_modified_rice_crop (284 words)

	AP Wire \| 10/16/2006 \| Biotech instills fear and loathing in California rice belt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rice farmers throughout Northern California are perplexed that companies and scientists are continuing to experiment with a technology so thoroughly rejected by the market.
		So-called "golden rice" was one of the first genetically engineered crops developed and it was aimed at alleviating malnutrition because of its ability to produce Vitamin A. Golden rice contains a gene from the daffodil plant and is unrelated to Bayer's rice, which is engineered with bacteria genes.
		Two rice strains that were genetically engineered with bacteria genes to resist weed killer were approved for the U.S. market 14 years ago but never sold because consumers around the world rejected the use of biotechnology on such a food staple.
	www.sanluisobispo.com /mld/sanluisobispo/business/15770341.htm (1057 words)

	Nortel Networks: Rice Belt Telephone to Replace Class 5 Switches with DMS-10 from Nortel Networks
		Rice Belt intends to deploy Nortel Networks DMS-10 in Weiner, Arkansas, with live traffic expected to be cut over in April 2004.
		Rice Belt also has plans to offer DSL service to subscribers in northeast Arkansas.
		“Rice Belt needed a switch that would enable us to migrate our network to voice over IP when we are ready, not when the technology dictates.
	www.nortel.com /corporate/news/newsreleases/2003d/12_16_03_rice_belt.html (698 words)

	As Featured in the Fort Worth Star Telegram
		EL CAMPO--Along the South Texas rice belt, from Victoria County to Beaumont, combines are rolling this month as the rice harvest moves into high gear.
		Once the Rauns' rice is hauled to the cooperative rice warehouse for drying, storage and sale, however, it is out of their hands.
		Because the rice is flooded shortly after it's planted and remains under water until a couple of weeks before it's harvested, all fertilizers and pesticides must be applied from the air, another major expense.
	www.lowellfarms.com /history_fwstartelegram.htm (1769 words)

	Rice Belt Definition / Rice Belt Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Rice Belt of the United States The United States of America, additionally referred to as the United States, U.S.A., U.S., US, America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia, is a federal republic of fifty states, mostly in central North America.
		Rice cultivation is well suited to countries with low labor costs, but high rainfall as it is very labor-intensive to cultivate and requires plenty of water for irrigation.
		Rice is the world's third largest crop, behind maize(corn) and wheat....
	www.elresearch.com /Rice_Belt (326 words)

	Rise of the Georgetown Rice Culture
		During their period of greatness, Georgetown rice planters, like the antebellum planters of other communities, created a world that inspired young men to become country gentleman, and insisted that young women train to be plantation mistresses with perfect manners.
		Once rice proved to be a reliable cash crop in the area, prospective planters began to enlist a large labor force to improve the land.
		With the invention of the tide-operated mill, the wealth of the Georgetown planters and the district began to expand.
	www.ego.net /us/sc/myr/history/rise.htm (3058 words)

	Taqua Sells Another Switch - Discount Long Distance Digest - 140-041
		Rice Belt Telephone, serving the rural population of Northeast Arkansas, will replace an American Digital Centura 5000 host switch, with remote switching units, and convert its entire subscriber base to the OCX.
		Rice Belt Telephone Company, Inc. was incorporated on June 11, 1953 and is located 21 miles southwest of Jonesboro, AR.
		Rice Belt serves the communities of Weiner, Fisher and Waldenburg, AR for a total of approximately 1,075 subscribers.
	www.thedigest.com /more/140/140-041.html (634 words)

	Nortel Networks: Rice Belt Telephone to Replace Class 5 Switches with DMS-10 from Nortel Networks
		Rice Belt intends to deploy Nortel Networks DMS-10 in Weiner, Arkansas, with live traffic expected to be cut over in April 2004.
		Rice Belt also has plans to offer DSL service to subscribers in northeast Arkansas.
		“Rice Belt needed a switch that would enable us to migrate our network to voice over IP when we are ready, not when the technology dictates.
	www.nortelnetworks.com /corporate/news/newsreleases/2003d/12_16_03_rice_belt.html (698 words)

	FS Rice - Pakistan's top rice manufacturer and exporter
		Rice is able to tolerate a wide range of soil reactions, but has a preference of acidic soils.
		Basmati rice Irri rice is mostly grown in the province of Sindh and southern Punjab.
		Rice is very important cereal grain of Pakistan, due to its use as food for native people as well as an export commodity.
	www.estateslinker.com /FsRice/RiceOfPakistan.aspx (1205 words)

	LMJ International Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rice is the staple food of more than 70% of the world's population.
		Rice is a major item of export of LMJ International Ltd. It is obtained from established rice mills so as to guarantee quality of the product and also ensure continuous supply of the commodity.
		The light brown color of brown rice is caused by the presence of bran layers which are rich in minerals and vitamins, especially the B-complex group.
	www.lmjinternational.com /rice.htm (453 words)

	Articles - Belt regions of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The term "Belt" is derived from the word belt, referring to a band of clothing worn about the waist, and applied metaphorically to contiguous geographic regions; it is unrelated to the geologic or astronomical use of the term.
		The first "Belt" coinage is the Bible Belt, which has a clear east-west orientation, perhaps contributing to the use of "belt" as a metaphor.
		Black Belt, a region of fertile farmlands in the Southeast now known as a region of persistent poverty with a high ratio of African-American residents.
	www.beadscenter.com /articles/Belt_regions_of_the_United_States (457 words)

	Texas' rice belt facing decrease in production, price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In Texas, most of the rice is grown in what is called the "rice belt," and that area stretches from Orange County down to the Gulf coast and on to Victoria and Calhoun counties.
		In Eagle Lake, Steve K. Balas, Texas chairman of the Texas Rice Producers legislative group, agreed; and pointed out the rains came just as much of the rice was blooming, and after about four weeks of rain, it definitely affected the rice crops in the area.
		When questioned about the number of rice farmers who are choosing to quit farming, Balas said there is usually someone ready to "step in" and take over the rice farming, at least in the area around Eagle Lake.
	www.countryworldnews.com /Editorial/SCTX/2004/sc093004rice.htm (765 words)

	Noor Rice Mills - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Today, rice is the most vital food crop in the world and a staple food for more than a half of the world's population.
		Rice is used on all occasions in Pakistan: festive, mournful, religious and in ordinary routine life.
		Rice is an ideal food: delicious, energy giving and nutritious.
	www.noorrice.com (319 words)

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		Rice production has increased from a 171,000 metric tonnes (rice equivalent) in 1992 to an all time high of 365,000 metric tonnes in 1999.
		The processing of paddy into rice is undertaken in the 105 mills located throughout the rice belt.
		CONCLUSION Guyana’s Rice Industry is potentially the most dynamic force in the nation’s economy and has been able to create a rapid and positive change in the fortunes of the nation’s rural farming community and the economy of the country.
	www.unep.ch /etu/draft/agri/summary/guyana.doc (2057 words)

	ARS \| Publication request: Germplasm Collection, Preservation, and Utilization
		Interpretive Summary: Rice germplasm is the raw material that breeders use to improve the rice varieties grown in the U.S. This is important because the rices presently grown are derived from a relatively few original ancestors.
		The importance of rice germplasm collections is illustrated by the narrowness of the genepool of U.S. rice cultivars.
		An examination of the pedigrees of 140 rice accessions showed that all of the germplasm can be traced to 22 plant introductions in the southern rice belt (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas) and 23 plant introductions in the western or California rice belt.
	www.ars.usda.gov /research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=125867 (342 words)

	Current Research Objectives of the Rice Varietal Improvement Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Most of the breeding effort is directed towards conventional long grain rices which predominate in the southern rice belt.
		These cultivars are used by the white milled rice industry and have grain characteristics which result in the rice to cooking dry and flaky (not sticky).
		Although these specialty rices may not be grown on large acreage, there is an increasing demand in the market place for rices having novel cooking, flavor, processing, and appearance characteristics.
	usda-ars-beaumont.tamu.edu /crtobj.html (735 words)

	New Holland North America: Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The 92C rice belt header is 25 feet wide and features your choice of single or double knife drive.
		Two draper belts feed the crop to the extra-wide center feed belt.
		Belt speed is adjusted by flow control and flow divider valves.
	www.newholland.com /h4/products/products_series_detail.asp?Reg=NA&RL=ENNA&NavID=000001277003&series=000005502411 (295 words)

	2004Press
		The four newly acquired claim groups extend along the southeastern portion of the Rice Lake Belt in an area with demonstrated surface gold showings, high-grade gold in drill intercepts on adjoining properties and extremely prospective geology that includes gold accommodation zones consisting of rocks that contain altered quartz-carbonate veins.
		In addition to the re-awakening of the Rice Lake gold mine located in the town of Bissett and adjacent to Marum's Strike Point property, there are four major exploration programs now underway along the Rice Lake gold belt.
		Marum's three Rice Lake properties include four gold targets environments, including three areas that contain classical “Red Lake” brittle-ductile rock packages that are host to the major gold deposits of the Red Lake area to the east.
	www.marumresources.com /id85.htm (2558 words)

	Growing canola in rice belt -DAWN - Business; November 10, 2003
		Canola crop in the entire rice belt viz, districts of Larkana, Shikarpur and Jacobabad came under rice grasshopper attack.
		On the contrary, the NODP was again allowed to repeat the same venture but this time in the rice growing belt of the then Nasirabad Division of Balochistan which is known for grasshopper prown area.
		During the 1998 Rabi season, canola was sown as dobari crop, on the recommendation of PODB, on 16,000 acres in districts of Jaffarabad, Dera Murad Jamali, and Jhal Magsi.
	www.dawn.com /2003/11/10/ebr7.htm (938 words)

	RiceRomp: Teachers - Math (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rice farming creates a wetlands like environment in which many animals, especially migratory waterfowl and birds, seem to thrive.
		Texas rice farms host enormous flocks of migrating water fowl, along with birds of prey and native sparrows.
		Since rice plants only grow in standing water of 2 to 3 inches deep, it takes a lot of water to grow rice.
	www.riceromp.com /teachers/lessonContent.cfm?pId=75 (647 words)

	New rice variety on the rise in Texas
		Overall, rice acreage in Texas is supposed to remain level with 2000 acreage, hovering around 210,000 acres.
		Mississippi rice producers planted 330,000 acres of rice in 1999, 218,000 acres in 2000, and are expected to plant 225,000 acres of the crop in 2001.
		In 2000, rice farmers in that state planted 27 percent of the stateís acreage in Drew, 20 percent in Bengal, 16 percent in Cocodrie, 15 percent in Cypress and 10.4 percent in LaGrue.
	southwestfarmpress.com /mag/farming_new_rice_variety_2 (838 words)

	Rice Belt Warehouse, Inc. Disclaimer and Terms of Sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For rice that is located in Rice Belt Warehouse, Inc. facilities, Rice Belt Warehouse, Inc. guarantees the milling yields and grades of the submitted sample and the corresponding stored rice.
		For rice that is not located in Rice Belt Warehouse, Inc. facilities, the milling yields and grades are based on the submitted sample only, and Rice Belt Warehouse, Inc. does not guarantee that the submitted sample represents the corresponding rice.
		Rice Belt Warehouse, Inc. does not in any way, either expressly or by implication, make any representations, guarantees, inducements, or promises regarding the financial condition of any buyer or the ability of any buyer to perform any obligation arising out of any rice sales or other contract.
	www.ricebelt.com /disclaimer.htm (267 words)

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