- By Wonnapob
- Jun 30, 2014
How many rice grain can be "harvested" from 1 rice seed?
Here is the explanation of growing 1 rice seed by transplanting method.
- If 1 grain of rice spill in 1 meal
- 3 rice spill from 3 meals
- 1,095 rice grains spill in 1 year (365 days)
- Thai population is about 64,000,000 people
- Thai people spill 70,008,000,000 rice grain in 1 year
- There are 52,260 rice grains in 1 kilogram of rice
- There are 261,300 rice grains in 5 kilogram of rice
- The average price per kilo of rice is 20 baht
- A 5 kilogram of rice is about 100 baht
- 1 sack of rice is 100 kilograms will cost 2,000 baht
- So the rice damage will be 11,330 sacks and 19 bags
- Total of the rice damage per year will cost 26,792,192 baht
Sources: http://gotoknow.org/blog/krukim/428102