In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money. In some parts of Africa, cattle were one of the earliest kinds of money. Other animals were used as money, too. The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the cen-tre. People strung them ...
Another big innovation was to grow rice in a way that was closer to its native habitat: the rice paddy. The first evidence of this dates back about 6,000 years ago in China. Growing rice in a paddy is much more labor-intensive than growing it on dry land. You have to build the wal...
Guilin rice noodlesGuilin rice noodles have a history of more than 2, 300 years. It is said that Oin Shi Huang, the founder of the Qin Dynasty (221 B C-206 B. C), took his army to southern China to wage war, aiming to unify southern China. However, the soldiers are from northern...
April 7 2008 Amidst growing concerns over a feared shortage of rice in the Philippines, President Macapagal-Arroyo lifts quotas on the importation of rice by private traders June 21 2008 The ship MV Princess of the Stars, owned by Sulpicio Lines that carried 626 passengers and 121 crew members...
Rice originated during the early Holocene. From eastern China, it was taken during prehistoric times to the northeast, including Korea and Japan, and also directly across the west Pacific Ocean–East China Sea to the Philippines and southeast Asia. The spread of rice to central and west Asia ...
The Philippines Culture Name Filipino Orientation Identification. The Republic of the Philippines was named the Filipinas to honor King Philip the Second of Spain in 1543. The Philippine Islands was the name used before independence. Location and Geography. The Republic of the Philippines, a ...
根据Mr. Potrykus, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, says Golden Rice has never been shown to be unsafe for the environment or people. 可知,故选B。 根据 Several months ago they questioned whether Golden Rice could do much for vitamin A deficiency(缺乏). They said releasing ...
The paper deals with selected aspects of agricultural research on coconuts in the Philippines as follows : (a) a historical review; (2) agricultural research system; (3) scientific and technological advances and findings; and (4) future development oriented targets. Recognizing the need to support...
Indonesia's development was mainly based on the exploitation of tropical rain forest under Dutch colonialism. It resulted in the bifurcation of the rural sector between rice-farming peasant proprietors and large plantations for tropical export crops based on hired labor. In the Philippines, ...
-0 BCStart of construction of the rice terraces with sophisticated irrigation technology in and around Banaue, the "Eighth Wonder of the World" A balangay, the first known ships in the Philippines Similar dwellings were found in Guam Pottery, about 2000 years old, from Sultan Kudarat ...