Hard rice and salt water had made him scrawny and thin-haired by his 40s.
We would begin praying and sprinkling these rather ordinary implements with yellow turmeric powder, red roli powder, grains of rice, holy water, and flower petals.
In a city long accustomed to an abundance of everything, we Tokyoites can no longer find gasoline, rice, bottled water or toilet paper in stores.
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The gene that lets the rice plant survive after being submerged in water comes from an archaic rice strain from before the dawn of agriculture, discovered by geneticists 50 years ago.
They're now engaged in assessing the scale of the disaster and distributing water and rice to stricken areas.
Farmers in many flood plains plant crops that grow underwater, such as deep water aman rice or jute.
Holding fans or bells, the women align themselves in one or two rows and perform movements designed to evoke the gestures of the rice cycle, particularly taue, the transplantation of seedlings into a large rice field filled with water.
Rice growing, in particular, is a heavy consumer of water: it takes some 5, 000 liters of water to produce 1 kg of rice.
Once the tomatoes melt into the dish, add the water, basmati rice and okra.
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One group of over 400 refugees was set adrift on a barge with two sacks of rice and two gallons of water.
Here and there, water buffalo stumble about rice paddies, chomping on foliage and occasionally looking up to offer gormless looks to passers by.
American brewers, faced with heartier barley and harder water, cut theirs with rice and corn.
Traditionally, folk artists mix water with wheat and glutinous rice flour.
Even in the poorest and most remote areas, people flock to the roadside to hand over money, clothes, water bottles or bags of rice and lentils.
Things like water, milk, bread, rice and even toilet paper have completely disappeared from supermarkets in my neighborhood.
Cheap rice, cheap petrol, and reliable drinking water, all thanks to generous subsidies.
It is a scenic drive: lotus ponds, bamboo groves, water buffalo, the familiar smell of rice blossoms.
They are also concerned this water may bring more dissolved caesium into rice fields in the future.
More dry-season water will greatly increase the production of rice and other crops.
China produces twice as much rice per hectare as India with the same volume of water.
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Compared with other crops, rice production is less efficient in the way it uses water.
The BGI has already solved the genomes of rice, cucumbers, soyabeans and sorghum, honeybees, water fleas, pandas, lizards and silkworms, and some 40 other species of plant and animal, along with over 1, 000 bacteria.
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The pioneer in bringing peace of mind to family or neighbours is Zojirushi, Japan's biggest maker of rice cookers and electric kettles, which in Japan keep water hot all day for tea or miso soup.
In California, well-connected farmers grow rice in the desert, even as Los Angeles begs for water.
In rural Quang Ngai province the authorities are seeking hoteliers to develop its golden, palm-fringed and empty beaches, and dream of building spa resorts around the hot-water springs that bubble up through the province's rice paddies.
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For hydration, there is water flavored with pandanus leaf, which tastes pleasantly of toasted rice, and fruit-flavored drinking vinegars, which, mixed with seltzer, are like sweet-and-sour sodas.
Transporting that food and medicine up into the hills will now prove even more challenging. (On Friday Indonesian troops stopped an aid convoy on the outskirts of Dili and seized two trucks laden with rice.) "The only thing we have a lot of is water from the river, " says John da Costa Freitas, a refugee.
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Other ministry mandates include for designated areas include purification of water used for irrigation and physical inspections and testing of every sack of rice produced.
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