Chinese farmer sings as a good luck gesture to the launch of the 'Rice is Life bus tour' at the Expo Garden Hotel, Kunming, Yunnan province China on 16th October 2004, the 'World Food Day' in the international year of rice. The 8 day bus tour organised by Greenpeace and 4 local NGO groups seeks to promote ecological sustainable rice agriculture in the farming Communities of Yunnan. Yunnan is the homeland of rice to the Chinese nation and known as the source of rice culture to the whole world.