Word: rice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rice Eaters. On average, the number of calories consumed by Asians, Africans and Latin Americans has increased since World War II. What has changed is the unwillingness of poorer peoples to accept undernourishment. Said an Indonesian delegate to the FAO conference: "More Indonesians are eating rice than ever before. The result is that more Indonesians want it. People who have never had rice before have decided that they like...
...even if all the U.S.'s anticipated food surplus for 1959 was distributed, it would amount to the equivalent of about two teacups of rice every 17 days for each of the world's undernourished people. A food dole would alleviate but would not remedy the poverty...
...population remain farmers. Unless it is accompanied by a general increase in national prosperity, an increase in agricultural production is a delusion-as the U.S. has learned in Greece, where the work of a U.S. agricultural advisory mission has presented the country with an unsalable surplus of wheat, rice and tobacco. If the gap is not to widen, if undernourished peoples are ever to achieve Western standards, there must be a process of economic development inside the poorer countries so that increased industrialization will create a market for increased farm production...
...standard of living, Formosans are second only to Japan in the Far East. Model land reforms have helped raise agricultural production to 50% above prewar levels; the rice crop measured 1,894,000 metric tons last year, 680,500 tons over the 1949 harvest; canned-pineapple production has sextupled in nine years, and sugar output is up some 30%. With tripled electric-power capacity, hundreds of new factories turn out textiles, bicycles, gasoline, cement, electric motors and other modern goods...
...paused for a bite of chicken fried rice. "When I lost the game," he continued, "the whole pattern came clear. The whole dull routine, class to class, book to book, learn a few facts and bull your way through an exam which doesn't make sense anyway. I decided to give it up for awhile, to stay in bed and read some books carefully and listen to some records...