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Champa rice seed given out in drought

The Song shi basic annals record that in the fifth lunar month of Dazhong Xiangfu 5 (AD 1012), with drought in Jiang, Huai and Liang-Zhe (江、淮、兩浙), seed of Champa rice (占城稻) was given out and the people were taught to plant it.

Limits: The Song shi is a Yuan-compiled (1343-45) official history drawing on Song court records; the English is an AI working translation. The annals do not state the quantity of seed or who distributed it; 占城 is conventionally Champa in present-day central Vietnam.

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Source: Song shi (History of Song), basic annalsRead the source