Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world's population, but the paddies it's grown in contributes up to 17 percent of global methane emissions -- about 100 million tons a year. Now ...

China and India are the world’s biggest rice growers, ... Long grain indica rice such as basmati and jasmine, which are longer, thinner, and have an aromatic smell.

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India will allow exports of non-basmati white rice to a clutch of countries such as the Philippines - one of the world's biggest importers of the grain - a government order said on Wednesday.