1121 White Sella Rice

Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima. As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia and the West Indies.
There are many varieties of rice and culinary preferences tend to vary regionally. In the Far East there is a preference for softer, stickier varieties. Because of its importance as a staple food, rice has considerable cultural importance. Rice is often directly associated with prosperity and fertility, therefore there is the custom of throwing rice at weddings.
The traditional method for cultivating rice is flooding the fields while, or after, setting the young seedlings. This simple method requires sound planning and servicing of the water damming and channeling, but reduces the growth of less robust and pest plants that have no submerged growth state, and deters vermin. While flooding is not mandatory for the cultivation of rice, all other methods of irrigation require higher effort in and pest control during growth periods and a different approach for fertilizing the soil.