WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Yangtze basin contributes nearly half of China’s crop production, including more than two-thirds of the total volume of rice. Among the other crops grown are cotton, wheat, barley, corn (maize), beans, and hemp.

Detailed explanation-2: -Our results indicate the agricultural civilization in the Yangtze River Basin greatly relied on rice production, and domesticated a large amount of fruit and aquatic vegetable crops, which reflects the adaptation and dependence to local subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests and wetlands.

Detailed explanation-3: -By 5000 BCE neolithic villages relied on rice as diet staple in Yangzi River valley.

Detailed explanation-4: -Origin and spread of rice cultivation within the Yangtze River Valley, southern China.

Detailed explanation-5: -The early Chinese farmed along the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, whereas the early Indians farmed along the Indus.)

Detailed explanation-6: -A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in China, and two-thirds of the rice. Industries and farming there contribute as much as 40% of China’s whole economy.