全世界有一半以上的入以大米为主食,水稻的种植面积在各种作物中仅次于小麦,居第二位,但产量却居第一。我国水稻的面积和总产均居世界第一位。在相当长的时间,世界上对稻的起源众说纷纭,不少学者都认为稻不起源于中国,甚至把栽培稻的两个亚种分别叫做“印度型”(籼稻)和“日本型”(粳稻)。学者们通过多年的研究,从 More than half of the world’s population is dominated by rice, which is second only to wheat in all crops but the largest output. China’s rice area and total output rank first in the world. For a long time, there are many different opinions on the origin of rice in the world. Many scholars think that rice can not originate from China and even call the two subspecies of cultivated rice “Indian” (indica) and “Japanese” "(Japonica rice). Scholars through years of research, from