"Imagine a World Without Rice: What Would You Eat Instead?", Rice Takes Centre Stage of Discourse on "E YIRI E WO!" Media Show
Explore Why Black Rice is Called Forbidden Rice, Plastic Rice Detection Practical Tests
By: Israel Adeleke
Did you know that there are about 120 types of rice? Do you know black rice? Have you eaten black rice before? Why is it called the forbidden rice? Is there anything like plastic rice? What are the dangers of consumption of plastic rice?
This week on "E YIRI E WO!" -a grassroots sociocultural surveillance knowledge-based media programme hosted by maverick practical broadcaster, Ambassador Olufemi Orunsola, the searchlight shifts to an exploration of a global staple food called Rice.
Yes. Rice. What about it? From where exactly did rice originate? Between India and China: Which country does research consensus favour more as the hone of rice?
A statement by the practical broadcast lecturer released on Sunday and sighted by OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News poses these lead posers with an additional question: Do you know the six(6) practical tests to conduct to detect if that rice you have at home is actually plastic rice?
The statement further raises critical socio-research questions such as:"Apart from its benefit as a staple food known to provide the body with carbohydrates, what other nutrients can mankind derive from rice, a grain found in virtually all homes?
Orunsola further clarifies that other issues related to rice to be explored on the programme include:its typology, nutritional benefits, cultural myths about rice, place of rice in popular global culture, preference of children for rice, likely dangers associated with rice generally and plastic rice in particular.
In his words, " Rice is a major cereal grain cconsumed since over 5,000 years across all cultures, and which plays a significant role in society, thus, it truly deserves to be explored, discussed, rediscovered and better understood for mankind to reap its optimal benefits and avoid the possible dangers inherent in its misuse, over consumption or consumption of its plastic variance."
He therefore calls on the academic community of scholars across all disciplines to join the knowledge-based conversations targeted at putting issues related to rice and myths surrounding them in proper social, scientific, and cultural perspectives.
Join the conversation this Monday on MAPOLY RADIO 99.7 FM Ojere Abeokuta from 11 am Nigerian time, as maverick Broadcaster, Orunsola again raises the bar on educational broadcasting truly impacts lives with practical knowledge of life's realities!
The pioneer Programmes Head, MAPOLY Radio 99.7 FM Ojere, Abeokuta emphasized that the knowledge based campus Radio show initiated by him aligns with the universally accepted truism that asking questions and inquisitiveness about things without assumptions, drive true functional knowledge.
The audience-commanding multimedia show, which airs every Monday between 11 am and 11.30 am on MAPOLY Radio 99.7 FM is also broadcast on OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA channels in video format on YouTube @opentv-naija, his personal TikTok handle @Weird Lecturer as well as on www.opentvnaija.com
"E YIRI E WO!", a grassroots programme initiated by Olufemi Orunsola to deepen the knowledge-base of Nigerians about life and every day things has previously beamed the searchlight on common objects and essential items such as the broom, mirror, combs, palm oil, eggs, turning stick(omorogun), the coconut, a farm tool called hoe, salt, among other things found in daily life experiences of people across the world.
You can also watch the programme live on Tiktok @ MAPOLY RADIO 99.7 as well as OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA OTN News online TV and YouTube channel @ open-tvnaija this week.
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