Part one of term paper
“Rice is intimately in the culture as well as the food ways and economy of many societies.”(www.riceweb.org p.1). For example, folklore tells us that when the Kachins of northern Myanmar (Burma) were sent forth from the center of the Earth, they were given the seeds of rice and were directed to a wondrous country where everything was per ...

Part two of term paper
... When the land had finally drained, people came down from the hills where had taken refuge, only to discover that all the plants had been destroyed and there was little to eat. Due to hunting, animals become scarce. On a particular day, the people say a dog coming across a field, and hanging on the dog’s tail were bunches of long yellow seeds. The people then planted the seeds and rice eventually grew. The origins of rice have been a major debate for some period of time now. The earliest set ...