They argue that the first hunter-gatherers to develop riceagriculture must have done so in this southern zone, within the apparent present-day geographic range of wild rice.
他们认为，最早发展水稻农业的狩猎采集者一定是在这个南部地区，在现在野生水稻明显的地理范围内。
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Simple agriculture, in the shape of rice, arrived in Japan only two thousand five hundred years ago, but in pots, the Japanese were very much ahead of the game.
The U.S.Department of Agriculture estimates that worldwide rice consumption increased 0.9% last year, to nearly 424 million metric tons.Production increased less than 0.7%.