101.   Philippine Trade Secretary Cesar Bautista said earlier that rice has always been a politically sensitive commodity in many countries.

102.   Parboiled rice is a type of precooked rice.

103.   Analysis of samples of earth found remains remarkably similar to the rice fields on which round-ground non-glutinous rice is grown today, Xinhua said.

104.   Beddu refused to say yesterday how much rice had been imported.

105.   But the rice is not of high quality and tends to shatter during the milling process.

106.   Currently, Thai fragrant rice is popular in overseas markets.

107.   Deputy Interior Minister Pinij Charusombat said that he hopes Thai fragrant rice will be the locomotive to pull the country out of its economic difficulties.

108.   For centuries, rice has been the staple food for Koreans.

109.   Haitian-grown rice is even more expensive because soil is eroded, agricultural practices are archaic and farmers suffer transport problems.

110.   He said there was enough rice, but poor farmers hit by crop failures caused by the drought did not have enough money to buy food.