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Published 1987
In the markets of the south I look for Camargue rice. These days there are more stalls selling grains, pulses and spices and a variety of rice, and the local Camargue rice is now produced in considerable quantities. Yet Waverley Root, writing in 1958, saw rice-growing as an interim stage in the process of turning the wild Camargue into conventional high-yielding agricultural land. Mercifully this has not come to pass; the hectares under rice have increased, but large tracts of the Camargue