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Rice is a staple food in China and much of Asia and the Middle East, so there is always a large demand for it. It's eatenless in Northern China though, where they tend to use wheat instead.

The terraces and paddies are simply the means to the end, and terraces make possible planting crops like rice, which needs its roots in water,on steep hillsides.

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