Champa rice

Champa rice is a quick-maturing, drought resistant rice that can allow two harvests,^[1] of sixty days each in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from Vietnam, it was later sent to China as a tribute gift from the Champa state during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song (r.997–1022).^[2]^[3] commonly cultivated in India , this is consumed as main course in Southern parts of India

References

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↑ Lynda Noreen Shaffer, A Concrete Panoply of Intercultural Exchange: Asia in World History (1997) in Asia in Western and World History, edited by Ainslie T. Embree and Carol Gluck (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe), p. 839-840.
↑ Richard W. Bulliet; Pamela Kyle Crossley; Daniel R. Headrick; Steven Hirsch, Lyman Johnson (1 February 2008). The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, Brief Edition, Volume I: To 1550: A Global History. Cengage Learning. pp. 279–. ISBN 0-618-99238-3.

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Varieties of rice

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