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'''Vary is the Malagasy word for rice. On Madagascar rice is usually eaten several times a day, often being the only staple food which is available. On average, a Malagasy person eats over 130kg rice per year, which makes Madagascar the top rice consuming nation per person in the world.'''
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An ancestral product, rice is still grown using the same age-old techniques because there are immutable imperatives to be observed if the harvest is not to be compromised. Indeed for the culture to succeed, it must fulfill each of the obligatory stages: ploughing, irrigation of the fields, levelling the earth ready for planting, transplanting seedlings, weeding, the fight against insect predators, while awaiting the maturity of the ears of grain appearing after three to four months of work. So far, despite the technical progress made, no one has managed to modify these steps for rice cultivation, however, improvements have enabled progress such as the discovery of fast-growing varieties resistant against the attacks fo parasites, the enrichment of soil with improved fertilizers, giving higher annual yields.