1.   I used to work for my Uncle Demba cultivating rice, tilling the soil and sowing rice seeds.

2.   Developed by public sector scientists in Switzerland and Germany, the rice seed is to be given free to poor farmers in developing countries.

3.   Here, yoked cattle till the fields and farmers plant the rice seeds by hand.

4.   Farmers borrowed rice seeds to fill their fields, but many undersized plants drowned when two tropical storms swept over Cambodia in October.

5.   If the cows opt for rice seeds or corn, then cereals will be bountiful.

6.   Sacks of rice seed, intended for the winter crop plantings, are stowed up in the rafters.

7.   The aid would help provide food, clean water, rice seed, shelter, medicine and health care over a six-month period.

8.   The astrologers then scattered sacred rice seeds and offered the food choice.

9.   A district official said there was a major shortage of rice seed as many displaced people had eaten it all.

10.   The ceremony ended with the crowd swarming onto the field to collect the sacred rice seeds.