Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago brought hope of agricultural self-sufficiency to India and other countries of Asia, has already lost much of its promise. The increase in oil prices has nearly trebled the cost of nitrogen fertilizers and of fuel for irrigation pumps upon which the crops of high-yield rice and wheat rely. Hundreds of thousands of Asia's small farmers who once enthusiastically sowed their fields with the Green Revolution's hybrid strains are now reverting to more traditional methods of cultivation. The harvests are smaller but much less dependent on fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation...
...first novel The Lionheads, Josiah Bunting drew heavily on his experience as a U.S. Army officer in Viet Nam to describe how ignorance and careerism were undermining the military. In The Advent of Frederick Giles, set in a tranquil English town thousands of miles from the nearest rice paddy, Bunting proves himself a resourceful sapper in the perennial and usually undeclared war between social classes...
...subjects of importance to society, the one most systematically neglected by American television is science." So says Michael Rice, vice president of Boston's public television station WGBH. According to a survey made at the beginning of the 1972-73 season, science programs were scheduled for fewer than 25 out of 4,368 prime-time network hours-about one-half of 1%. Further, most of the programs were not really science, but adventure-wildlife travelogues...
...children of the village help out at rice planting and harvesting, but they also fly kites, walk on stilts, play with tops. Their parents, Rubin says, treat them as adult reincarnations of adults. (Rhade tribesmen are supposed to love children so much that they used to buy Vietnamese children to raise as their own; but almost 70 per cent of their children die before their first birthday--of malaria, intestinal parasites, and skin diseases caused by poor sanitation...
...when, in a rare and fateful development, almost all the world's major nations entered a boom at the same time. Global competition for raw materials grew to an unprecedented pitch: last year every nation appeared to be trying to buy up all the wheat, corn, copper, soybeans and rice available anywhere, at whatever price frantic bidding might produce. That scramble continues for many commodities; the U.S. Government estimates that in fiscal 1974, which ends in June, American farm exports will total $20 billion, v. $8 billion only two years ago. Prices consequently rise, both in the importing nations that...