Apparently it's much more difficult to hull rice than to thresh European grains like wheat. Rice requires a lot more of a beating. Its hull is silica based and someone I just read poetically referred to it as "biogenic opal"
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I watched a video of some farmers in Sichuan harvesting rice and it looked like very heavy work that took ages.
3:29 PM - 21 Sep 2019
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