If you know you are going to be eating some rice pre soak it and strain it and keep the water around to ferment for a few days then use on your plants and seeds you can even dilute by half with some chlorine free water.
Won't cost you anything and the lactic acid bacteria stops prevents 'damping off' from fusarium. Plants will grow better in general too.
You can use kefir and other probiotics too.

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