its a manga aimed at Japanese first, everyone else from other nations is an after thought, what do you expect?Japan is not the most country that make rice. Japan land to make rice field is limited. So, many of the rice came from other countries.
His region climate n the field r not suitable for the paddy to grow + he still need to find the paddy seed first + fine tune the paddy seed so it can grow on his region climate n field + teach the farmer to grow it, if he grow the paddy from the seed till harvest using his magic = more troublesome thing coming to him...OTOH wouldn't it be easier to just grow your own rice rather then depending on inports? With all the abilities the MC was born with it should be a relatively simple process to set up a rice patty close to the river and train a few farmers to grow it for you.
haha yeah.Weren't Italians pretty into rice? I'm sure they didn't just import it from Asia and grew it themselves.
Always annoys me that Japan will portray European inspired isekai worlds, which are really obviously just blatantly straight up Europe, but then also do things like portray the natives there as so unhygienic that that the idea of bathing has never crossed their mind, or so stupid that IF they do happen to have rice, they'll only give it to animals and not think it's fit for consumption (despite only needing to cook it, compared to wheat which needs to be milled etc)
(that said, there is some basis for europeans being unhygienic, as after the black plague, there was a very strong belief that bathing was the cause of it, thus europeans took a lot less baths for a period of time. Though the isekais always just portray the people as too stupid or uncultured to think of washing themselves rather than having any reason for it)
Whatever world it is, they lack the knowledge the MC possesses. Regardless of whether it's something they should know.And don't you love the trope were they come into an obvious european fantasy world, and somehow, the cooks don't know how to make anything good.
Like everything is bland, they somehow never use even salt.