11.   The Japanese have repeatedly relied on sweet potatoes for famine relief, especially after typhoons devastated rice crops.

12.   The rice crop is beginning to head, and there have yet to be major problems with disease or insects.

13.   Using genetic engineering, scientists have made rice plants resistant to bacterial leaf blight, a disease that routinely destroys rice crops around the world.

14.   A bumper winter-spring rice crop has aided its efforts.

15.   A few days ago, Momtaznagar was an affluent village of green rice crops.

16.   A series of bad floods in the lower regions of Myanmar is believed to have destroyed a significant portion of the rice crop late last year.

17.   Another guide, Lee Kyung Chul, said the rice crop will survive but the corn harvest will suffer.

18.   At least nine rivers burst their banks, flooding village after village and ruining rice paddy crops, the center said.

19.   Burma is also suffering severe inflation and the rice crop suffered in recent flooding.

20.   But the investigators tracked the coordinates to a low-lying field where farmers had recently harvested a rice crop.