people all over the world eat rice. millions of people in asia , africa , and south america eat day of their lives.
some people eat almost nothing but rice.
rice is a kind of grass . there are more than 7,000 kinds of rice , farmers grow rice in many countries , even in the southern par of the united state and in eastern australia.
no one realy knows where rice came from.
some scintists think that it started to grew in southern asia thousbands of years ago.
someone in china wrote about it almost 5,000 years ago.