水稻,在世界各大洲都有栽培,它是世界人民的主要食粮之一,尤其在亚洲,稻米消费量占全世界总消费量的90%以上。中国是水稻的故乡之一,早在六千九百多年前就开始了水稻生产,栽培史比水稻的另两个起源地印度和印度尼西亚分别早一千多年和三千多年。中国,是世界上栽种水稻最早的国家。 Rice, cultivated on all continents of the world, is one of the main foodstuffs consumed by the people of the world, and in particular in Asia, rice accounts for more than 90% of the world’s total consumption. As one of the hometown of rice, China started rice production as early as 6,900 years ago. Its history is more than 1,000 years and 3,000 years earlier than India and Indonesia, the other two origins of rice. China is the earliest country in the world to plant paddy rice.