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Paddy fields aren't the only way to grow rice, you can do rows and flood soil alongside, you can do upland style dry fields rice planting. I guess the point of
by ggm 1y ago
Paddy fields aren't the only way to grow rice, you can do rows and flood soil alongside, you can do upland style dry fields rice planting.
I guess the point of the experiment was with climate and increasing flooded landscape (like the fens?) But the risk would be salt incursion as much as anything else.
If it's climate (temperature) alone, it didn't need paddy fields. I think a lot of Australian rice is irrigated but not full flooded fields, or a reduced flood compared to traditional approaches. More amenable to massive fields and a water storage system. Recently saw a cotton farm at St George and the (huge!) fields are groomed with a laser level to control for irrigation flow, I think they do the same for rice, when it makes sense.
- zeristor 1y agoI think the article pointed out that wet fields help preserve the fenlands peat. If it dries out it shrinks, and the organic content is consumed generating CO₂
- zeristor 1y agoAfter manually searching for the 2 subscript I found out one can install and use a scientific keyboard. K₂SO₄ - not the imperial droid
- dotancohen 1y agoCompletely OT, but which scientific keyboard did you choose? I was somewhat expecting to find a scientific layout for Gboard.
- zeristor 1y agoSciKey on the iPhone. The free version works OK, and for 99p it can do something fancy, I’m not sure what though. Subscripts especially for CO₂, has been irksome for me for ages.
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- rob_c 1y agore-naturalising them also helps preserve them. That should be getting a higher priority if that's the concern
- mytailorisrich 1y agoIt's just a climate issue to grow rice outdoor in England. Rice is grown in Southern France and Northern Italy. So it is unsurprising that this may be moving North, as summers het warmer, and this summer was almost Mediterranean in England.
- stavros 1y agoAnd it was Saharan in the Mediterranean.