Asia’s dependency on rice cultivation for both subsidence and income
is intuitively understood. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) estimates the agricultural population of lowland
rice cultivation in Asia to be over 470 million - larger than the entire
population of the United States. Improvements in rice cultivation would
stand to lift hundreds of millions from debt and poverty.
Conversely, the disruption of rice cultivation would threaten to mire
hundreds of millions in deeper debt, inescapable destitution, and all of
the negative socioeconomic implications that follow.
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