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Rice farming began along the Yangtze

Chinese farmers were growing paddy rice around nine thousand years ago Archaeological sites in the Yangtze valley hold the earliest evidence of cultivated rice, with impressions in pottery and traces of fields dating back roughly nine thousand years. The crop was domesticated from a wild grass that sheds its grain, and growers selected plants that held their seeds. Rice then spread south and west, reaching India and Southeast Asia over the following millennia. It sits in Mondo's food collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Chinese farmers were growing paddy rice around nine thousand years ago. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a food fact?: Yes. It sits on the Food shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.