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Most rice worldwide is grown in paddy fields. This practice emits methane which is a greenhouse gas 21 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

"There is no other crop that is emitting such a large amount of greenhouse gases," said Reiner Wassmann, a climate change specialist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.

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