Rice
Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population. It is the grain with the second-highest worldwide production, after maize (corn). Since a large portion of maize crops are grown for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by the human species.
Genetic evidence has shown that rice originates from a single domestication 8,200–13,500 years ago, in the Pearl River Valley region of China. African rice originated in the Niger Delta and has been cultivated for 3500 years. However, it never developed far from its original region and cultivation has declined in favour of Asian Rice.
ITL includes rice among its core tradeable commodities.
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