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Mongabay Explains: How Ducks Aid Sustainable Rice Cultivation

Mongabay Explains: How Ducks Aid Sustainable Rice Cultivation
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Rice may help New York farms profit from climate-change flooding

Rice geneticist Susan McCouch caught a waterfall of rice pouring from the hopper of a harvester combine idling in a drained rice paddy about 10 miles from campus and grabbed

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Mongabay Explains: How ducks aid sustainable rice cultivation

A pioneering rice farm in Vermont has embraced the agroecological technique known as “aigamo method,” which introduces ducks into rice fields to offer natural weed and pest control, along with essential fertilization for the grains. Originating in Japan, where ducks have long played a crucial role in rice farming, the aigamo method was pioneered by […]

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Rice can help NYS farms profit from climate-change flooding

Cornell Cooperative Extension is helping New York state farmers learn how to grow rice, a potentially lucrative crop that can thrive on flood-prone land as a hedge against climate change.

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Is rice the climate-change crop the Northeast needs?

Is rice the climate-change crop the Northeast needs?
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