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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

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Right now, its too wet for us to get into the field with a tractor, she explained the night after a thunderstorm this summer. Thats because so much rice is grown around the world: Roughly 11 percent of all arable land is devoted to this crop, a daily staple for half the people on Earth.