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Ross Koda, president of Koda Farms, operates the California products booth at the 2016 SIAL Shanghai food expo. Koda, who began exporting rice to China this year, runs the oldest family-owned rice farm in California, producing a medium-grain Japanese-style heirloom rice, a whole grain brown rice and a Sho-Chiku_Bai sweet sticky rice. Photo: Courtesy of California Center

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Asian migrants grow rich exporting agri-products to China

by David DeVoss August 26, 2017February 18, 2020

In more ways than we realize, the foods we eat evolve just as fast as the fashions we wear. Certainly, the rice served in China today is far different from the grain that sustained Chairman Mao’s forces on his Long March. The “miracle rice” of 1970 that eliminated hunger in Taiwan has been supplanted many […]