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  • By Wonnapob
  • Jun 30, 2014

How many rice grain can be...

How many rice grain can be "harvested" from 1 rice seed?

Here is the explanation of growing 1 rice seed by transplanting method.

  1. If 1 grain of rice spill in 1 meal
  2. 3 rice spill from 3 meals
  3. 1,095 rice grains spill in 1 year (365 days)
  4. Thai population is about 64,000,000  people
  5. Thai people spill 70,008,000,000 rice grain in 1 year
  6. There are 52,260 rice grains in 1 kilogram of rice
  7. There are 261,300 rice grains in 5 kilogram of rice
  8. The average price per kilo of rice is 20 baht
  9. A 5 kilogram of rice is about 100 baht
  10. 1 sack of rice is 100 kilograms will cost 2,000 baht
  11. So the rice damage will be 11,330 sacks and 19 bags
  12. Total of the rice damage per year will cost 26,792,192 baht

Sources: http://gotoknow.org/blog/krukim/428102