100 pounds (lbs) is equal to 1 hundred weight (cwt) of rice.

1 Japanese cargo is equal to between 12,000 - 13,000 Metric Tons (MT) of milled rice.

It takes 22.046 cwt of milled rice to equal 1 MT

At 13,000 X 22.046 = 286,598 cwt of milled Rice

On Average after you mill paddy rice you get 62% whole milled kernels

If you take .62 X 286,598 = 177,690 cwt + 286,598 cwt = 464,288 cwt of paddy rice.

Each year on average California is awarded 23 cargos of rice going to Japan.

23 X 464,288 = 10,678,624 cwt of paddy rice goes to Japan each year.

23 X 286,598 = 6,591,754 cwt of milled rice goes to Japan each year.

On average California grows 40 million cwt of paddy rice each year if 10 million cwt goes to Japan, Japan buys 25% of the paddy grown in California.

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