“After we finished ploughing, we would bathe the cows and then relax in the field playing flutes,” said Jero Dodo, who has farmed the rice terraces of Tabanan, Bali, since he was 12 years old. While he speaks fondly of the past, the farmer has one foot in the future. Dodo, who spoke to Mongabay […]
Interesting. California rice fields (state grows a decent amount of rice) have always used this method of intermittent flood irrigation rather than the rice paddy method most Asian nations use. Biggest reasons are higher yields and less abundant water rather than concern about greenhouse gas production.