European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Stripes daily Magazine by Ben stall writer Rice is the Staple food for nearly half the human race and More than 190 million tons of it Are eaten each As the world population in there in More and More de Mand for Rice the biggest increases in population Are coming in the major Rice eating Hall the Rice grown in the world does not go beyond the farm lie cause the Farmer and his family Cut it Only about 5 per cent fillers world the bulk of Rice is produced and Conlen in the fur although it is Purl of the diet of Rice eaters were one of the factors taken into account by the food and agriculture organization Fao of the United nations in preparing a study on the coining demand for the study predicted that world de Mand for Rice excluding the Spinoso Voct Block would increase from 86 million tons in 1958 to 104 million tuns by 1905 or by 21 per the Rice exporting countries would shars the increase atom i fully with Rice importing among the countries with Riff m the main red China is the biggest it consumes Arioul 40 per com of the worlds while on third of the Chi Nese living in the cold North inuit by Cut wheat and the rest of the Chi Nese Well Over 400 million air Rice most of the other 800 million persons in the far East Are also Rice roughly 700 million of them thrive pm while the average consumption of Rice in the far East is about 220 pounds per head per this figure conceals wide differences within the among the big producers such As Cambodia and consumption is about 330 pounds per head per in other Areus such As Hong cast Pak stun und the the average is about 263 Rice compares Well with other cereals such us Mil let und with roots such As cassava and hut it needs to in supplemented with protein Rich the diet is unbalanced in Many Rice eating in Rice is an  food in countries like Ecuador and British these coun tries have an average consumption rang ing from 110 to 173 pounds per head other big groups of Rice eaters arc to be found in the and parts of the Middle East and West Afri elsewhere Rice is a Small part of the Only 9 pounds per head annually in nor Ali 13 pounds in the Rice producing countries in Southern Europe and Only to pounds in Western in these Only 1 per cent of the calories Are derived from Ilice eaters May be classified in three the biggest is that of the habitual Rice eaters who live in the far Hirse people arc poor and rely on Rice for nost of their they number More than million Over on third of the total world most of them grow their own a second big group is the people of West parts of latin and Asia who have settled in Urban they Are usually new arrivals from Rural areas where Little Rice is consumed and to them Rice is a Semi luxury the third group is scattered among countries where Rice is eaten Only us a special the people in this group Are Well their diet is millions prefer Rice hand pounded rather than machine or parboiled that the Paddy soaked in hot water and dried prior to milling and millions of others prefer highly polished this is unfortunate because the husked or parboiled types retain higher nutritive there is also a preference Tor the shape of the Long Grain is treated As Superior in Southeast Asia and also brings a higher Price in the world mar the round Grain the of which lend to stick together in Cook is preferred in Tai wan and parts of in the United round Grain Rice is used for dessert and Long Grain for since the end of world War then has been a Sharp Rise in the amount of Rice consumed in latin Africa and the Middle the continent now has to import Rice from North Portt help with toc Nicol probe Tim of Grain Paddy in an Long Groin round of and by of Statt and