Topic 155

155. Plants can provide food, shelter, clothing, or medicine. What is one kind of plant that is important to you or the people in your country? Use specific reasons and details to explain your choice.

THE MOST PARAMOUNT PLANT IN MY COUNTRY

In my country, folks consume various kinds of plants as daily consumption, such as apples, bananas, wheat, to name just a few. However, the most paramount plant that people in my country cannot live without is hybridized rice -- which is a special selected sort of rice in Asian districts. Hybridized rice has contributed a lot to agriculture in my state.

As a threshold matter, abundant quantities that hybridized rice can produce greatly ameliorate basic needs of populaces of my country. Before this kind of rice is discovered, many regions of my state, typically some western districts, have suffered from famine problems for more than a century. It was common that a few families ate only breakfast and supper because of lack of food. Hybridized rice changed this situation. The output of rice per acre now is several times of once it was. Today people in western provinces leave a decent life due mainly to the discovery of hybridized rice.

Secondly, the time period that hybridized rice needs to grow up from shoots to matured rice is dramatically short compared to other varieties of food, for example, wheat, corn, and so forth. In one single year, farmers are able to harvest rice two times in frigid northern provinces in my country, and three times in southern districts where sunlight usually lasts more hours and has a higher intensity. As we can see, zing of hybridized rice is quite astounding. To the contrary, wheat in southern parts of my country can merely be grown once in one year. Thus, wheat is not considered as the most important plant among folks in my state.

Thirdly, another characteristic of hybridized rice is its delicious flavor. It is often believed that the more fruits a plant can produce, the less palatable the fruits are. Nevertheless, hybridized rice makes this belief out of date. The color of fruits of hybridized rice is translucent, which attracts numerous people who first see them. Moreover, the taste of the rice is mixed with fragrant odor and aromatic feeling. As a result, some people even cannot bear a day without hybridized rice. Furthermore, hybridized rice can be used to cook soup, to fry or to steam, all of which make hybridized rice suitable for broad preparation of meals.

In summary, in my country, majority of multitudes hold that hybridized rice is the most crucial plant in my country, in respect that it solves the stickler of famine, provides massive products, requires relatively low conditions to grow up, and offers savory food for us.