W - T7 - Huan Le

T7 - Plants can provide food, shelters, clothings and medicine. What is one kind of plant that is important to you or your countries?

While someone asks me about an important plant in my country, my answer is rice. There are numerous reasons explaining for this symbolic plant. My writing will critically present the main reasons.

Firstly, rice make the most crucial part of the Vietnamese meals. Needless to say, rice provide the largest amount of calories among other components of daily meals. Without this critical input, we will not have enough energy to live and develop naturally and fully. Besides, due to the mass production in the paddies, rice price is quite competitive in comparison to other food costs. Vietnamese people’s income is still quite low and it is unpredictable if this good increase its price more than others. By providing human the necessary calories at low cost, price is really our biggest asset for future survival.

Secondly, rice exports used to be the biggest contribution to the country’s export value, and will still be a significant factor of our emerging economy. It is commonly known that Viet Nam is one of the biggest rice exporters worldwide. Most of the people in the country get their main income from the sale of rice. More notably, the climate change and urbanization have caused serious problems in expanding paddy fields for the non-stop-increasing population. This fact will leads to the higher demands for rice in the future. In returns, the export-based economy will benefit from this change.

In short, by providing food for human and contributing to the export industry, rice is of great importance to Viet Nam and its people. I strongly believe that the plant is still essential for the next generations.
Huan le - 269 words, 23 mins