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Default "collateral included deaths in organic rice production [faq]"


dh@. wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2006 11:00:14 -0700, wrote:
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> >dh@. wrote:

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> >If you can't grow rice without creating ecological mayhem

>
> Who does,


Rice growers on the natural floodplains of Southeast Asia, Indonesia
and India, for example.

> and how do you know your rice is grown
> without it?


Rice grown in unsuitable environs requires artificial flooding and
draining. For a variety of reasons, flood irrigation is the most
damaging method of applying water to soil.