Rice is considered the main crop in the world for more than 3.5 billion people including ones who live in poor conditions such as in the Asian Countries. The production of this crop depends on weather and climate changes such as droughts, floods, higher temperatures and rising sea levels.
Monsoons are an Indian disaster which let farmers losing four million tons of rice useful to feed 30 million people! The same problem may occur also in Bangladesh.
The so called Scuba Rice is an attempt to a variety of rice which resists to flood and can survive up to 2 weeks under water. Scuba rice it's a cultivar nowadays also known in Bangladesh and in the Philippines.
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