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Northern_Lad



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 05 1:49 pm    Post subject: More rice, less water Reply with quote
    

Sounds like someone's been thinking...

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tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 05 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Blimey, can't argue with that can you?

Northern_Lad



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 05 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The thing is, it's quicker, it's cheeper and it uses less water - why did nobody think of it before? and why aren't more people doing it?

Jb



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 05 2:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Northern_Lad wrote:
The thing is, it's quicker, it's cheeper and it uses less water - why did nobody think of it before? and why aren't more people doing it?


tradition and habit?

tawny owl



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 05 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Because people are creatures of habit, and they do things the way their parents did them, and their grandparents before that, and so on and so forth.

There's s story about a woman who cut the legs off the turkey before cooking it because her mother did it, and one day she asked why, seeing as other people didn't seem to. Her mother said she wasn't sure, but her mother had always done it. So off goes the woman to the grandmother, who said she wasn't sure either, but that's how her mother did it. Finally, the woman asks the great-grandmother, only to be told that she did that because she hadn't been able to afford a proper turkey dish, so cutting the legs off was the only way it could fit in.

It's actually quite difficult for people to break a chain of cultivation methods in particular, and often it's an outsider that decides to see if a traditional method actual stands up to scrutiny, and then finds it doesn't!

Excellent idea this, and something that's likely to make a real difference to all rice-producing nations.

Lozzie



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 05 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thanks for posting, NL. So nice to have some good news for a change.

Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 05 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Wow, Nice to see.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 05 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I suppose it is a bit counter instinctive, if you want more crops it may seem to make sense to plant more closer together, with an abundance of irrigation.

nettie



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 05 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's amazing. Now I know why my single runner bean that didn't get eaten by the rabbits has masses and masses of pods on

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