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Rice paddies synergise with fish farming
2013-02-27 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: By combining aquaculture with wet paddy farming in its coastal areas Bangladesh can meet food security and climate change issues, says a new report. The approach promises more nutritious food, without causing environmental damage, and has the potential for a 'blue-green revolution' on Bangladesh's existing crop areas extending to about 10.14 million hectares and an additional 2.83 million hectares that remain waterlogged for about 4--6 months. "The carrying capacities of these additional lands...
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India's rice revolution: Chinese scientist questions claim of massive harvests
2013-02-23 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China's leading rice scientist has questioned India's claims of a world record harvest, following a report in last week's Observer of astonishing yields achieved by farmers growing the crop in the state of Bihar. Professor Yuan Longping, known as the "father of rice", said he doubted whether the Indian government had properly verified young Indian farmer Sumant Kumar's claim that he had produced 22.4 tonnes of rice from one hectare of land in Bihar in 2011. Yuan, director-general of China's...
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Nepali farmers abandon rice as monsoon shifts
2013-02-19 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: For most of his adult life, Bidur Basnet has planted paddy rice each monsoon season on his five hectares of mountain land. But in the last five years, as monsoon rains have grown increasingly unreliable, he has had to abandon the country's staple crop. Now he grows easier-to-water vegetables on half his land, leaving the other half fallow. "How can we prepare our paddy fields when we do not know which month in any year the monsoon rains will drench our fields?' grumbles Basnet, 43, who gave...
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Rice University team links PM2.5 and ozone levels with cardiac arrest
2013-02-17 16:30:14| Green Car Congress
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India's rice revolution audio slideshow
2013-02-15 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Farmers in parts of India are breaking growing records, using less seed, less water, and compost as fertiliser. This ground-breaking method of cultivation, developed in Madagascar, is boosting yields and changing lives for the farmers. Norman Uphoff, professor at Cornell University, explains how it is done
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