Oryza glaberrima
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Oryza glaberrima, commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species.
Karabane, Senegal, 2008. Dikes protect the rice paddy fields from saltwater; the irrigation skims the freshwater layer off the high tide. Similar delta cultivation techniques were used going back to at least the 15th century in South Carolina.
Similar dike, Hampton Plantation, 2010, long abandoned and reclaimed by woodland
With inedible husk
Broken rice
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Broken rice is fragments of rice grains, broken in the field, during drying, during transport, or during milling. Mechanical separators are used to separate the broken grains from the whole grains and
Left, broken or Mali rice; right, long-grain rice. The former is popular in Senegal, where it is used interchangeably with couscous.
An upma dish of broken rice cooked with onions, chilli and ginger, and served with coconut chutney, from India
Cơm tấm (literally "broken rice") with a lemongrass pork chop, from Vietnam.
A thieboudienne from Mauritania, with tomato broken rice, fish, and vegetables.