(RICE) Europe

(RICE) Europe

The Moors brought Asiatic rice to the Iberian Peninsula in the 10th century. Records indicate it was grown in Valencia and Majorca. In Majorca, rice cultivation seems to have stopped after the Christian conquest, although historians are not certain.^[25]
Muslims also brought rice to Sicily, where it was an important crop^[25] long before it is noted in the plain of Pisa (1468) or in the Lombard plain (1475), where its cultivation was promoted by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and demonstrated in his model farms.^[26]
After the 15th century, rice spread throughout Italy and then France, later propagating to all the continents during the age of European exploration.