Some rice facts & trivia
Ways to say black rice in different languages:
| Africa | swart rys |
| Albanian | oriz i zi |
| Arabic | أسود الأرز |
| Armenian | Սեւ բրինձ |
| Azerbaijani | qara düyü |
| Basque | Arroz beltza |
| Belarusian | чорны рыс |
| Bulgarian | черен ориз |
| Catalan | arròs negre |
| Chinese | 黑米 |
| Croatian | crna riža |
| Czech | černá rýže |
| Danish | sorte ris |
| Dutch | zwarte rijst |
| Estonian | must riis |
| Filipino | itim na bigas |
| Finnish | musta riisi |
| French | riz noir |
| Galician | arroz negro |
| Georgian | შავი ბრინჯით |
| German | Schwarzer Reis |
| Greek | Μαύρο ρύζι |
| Haitian creole | nwa diri |
| Hebrew | אורז שחור |
| Hindi | काले चावल |
| Hungarian | fekete rizs |
| Icelanding | svartur hrísgrjón |
| Indonesian | beras hitam |
| Irish | rís dubh |
| Italian | riso nero |
| Japanese | 黒米 |
| Korean | 검은 쌀 |
| Latvian | melns rīsi |
| Lithuanian | juodųjų ryžių |
| Macedonian | црн ориз |
| Malay | beras hitam |
| Maltese | iswed ross |
| Norwegian | sort ris |
| Persian | برنج سیاه و سفید |
| Polish | czarny ryż |
| Portugese | arroz preto |
| Romanian | negru de orez |
| Russian | черный рис |
| Serbian | црна рижа |
| Slovak | čierna ryža |
| Slovenian | črni riž |
| Spanish | arroz negro |
| Swahili | mchele mweusi |
| Swedish | svart ris |
| Thai | ข้าวสีดำ |
| Turkish | siyah pirinç |
| Ukrainian | чорний рис |
| Urdu | سیاہ چاول |
| Vietnamese | màu đen gạo |
| Welsh | reis du |
| Yiddish | שוואַרץ רייַז |
Around half of the world’s population (China, Indonesia & India) depend on rice for sustenance.
Rice cultivation may have started at around 5,000 BC.
Large portions of the world’s population spend up ¾’s of their incomes on rice alone.
Most of Asia’s Rice production comes from the enhanced assortments of rice that are planted on ¾ of Asia's rice farming land.
There are around 250 million rice farms in Asia.
The words used for “Food” & “Rice” are the same in several Asian languages.
Every year at least 65 kilos of rice are produced per every single person on Earth.
The exact number of different types of rice is unknown, but there are around 140k known types.
Rice can be found everywhere except Antarctica.
At least half of all the Rice produced is consumed within 10 miles of where it was grown
Rice can be grown in almost any environment, and is the highest yielding cereal grain. You can more than 3,000 grains of rice from a single seed.