1.? Wheat grows in the north and rice grows in the south.

2. Wheat grows in the soil, rice grows in paddy fields.

3. Wheat is processed as flour, rice is processed as rice. People in the south love rice and people in the north love pasta.

4. Wheat is the staple food of the north, rice is the staple food of the south. Wheat is sown in the fall and harvested in the summer. Rice is sown in summer and harvested in fall.

Rice

Wheat

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Nutritional Value

Harvested rice kernels, called paddy, have a husk, which is often removed during milling along with a layer of bran, and is sometimes supplemented by a thin layer of dextrose and talcum powder to give the kernels their luster. Milled only to remove the shell of the rice is called brown rice, rich in starch, and contains about 8% of the protein and a small amount of fat, thiamine, niacin, riboflavin, iron and calcium. Rice with the husk and bran removed is called semolina or white rice, and its nutritional value is greatly reduced.

Uses

Rice is mostly consumed by boiling it into rice. In the Orient, the Middle East, and many other regions, rice is eaten with a variety of soups, side dishes, and main teas. By-products of rice milling include rice bran, finely ground rice bran meal, and the starch raised from the rice bran, all of which are used as feed. The oil obtained from the processing of rice bran is used both as food and in industry. Broken rice is used for brewing, extracting alcohol and manufacturing starch and rice flour.

Rice husk is used as fuel, filler, polishing agent and can be used to make fertilizer and furfural. Rice straw is used as fodder, livestock bedding, covering roofing materials, packaging materials, but also to make matting, clothing and brooms. The major producers of rice are China, India, Japan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar. Other important producers are Vietnam, Brazil, South Korea, the Philippines and the United States. In the late last century, world rice production averaged about 400 billion kilograms per year, with about 145 million hectares under cultivation. Ninety-five percent of the world's rice production is consumed by humans.

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