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Rice plants grown in a dry field do not grow so tall. Sunlight isreceived uniformly, reaching to the base of the plants and to the lowerleaves. One square inch of leaf is enough to produce six grains of rice.Three or four small leaves are more than enough to produce a hundredgrains of rice to the head. I sow a bit thickly and wind up with about250-300 grain-bearing stalks (20 to 25 plants) per square yard. If youhave many sprouts and do not try to grow large plants, you can reap greatharvests with no difficulty. This is also true for wheat, rye, buckwheat,oats, millet, and other grains.Of course the usual method is to keep several inches of water in thepaddy throughout the growing season. Farmers have been growing ricein water for so many centuries that most people believe that it cannot begrown any other way. The cultivated varieties of "wet-field" rice arerelatively strong if grown in a flooded field, but it is not good for theplant to be grown in this way. Rice plants grow best when the watercontent in the soil is between 60 and 80 percent of its water-holdingcapacity. When the field is not flooded plants develop stronger roots andare extremely resistant to attacks by disease and insects.The main reason for growing rice in a flooded field is to control theweeds by creating an environment in which only a limited variety ofweeds can survive. Those which do survive, however, must be pulled byhand or uprooted with a hand weeding tool. By the traditional method,this time-consuming and backbreaking job must be repeated severaltimes in each growing season.In June, during the monsoon season, I hold water in the field forabout one week. Few of the dry-field weeds can survive even so short aperiod without oxygen, and the clover also withers and turns yellow. Theidea is not to kill the clover, but only to weaken54
it so as to allow the rice seedlings to get established. When the water isdrained (as soon as possible/ the clover recovers and spreads to cover thefield's surface again beneath the growing rice plants. After that, I hardlydo anything in the way of water management. For the first half of theseason, I do not irrigate at all. Even in years when very little rain falls thesoil stays moist below the layer of straw and green manure. In August Ilet in water a little at a time but never allow it to stand.If you show a rice plant from my field to a farmer he will knowimmediately that it looks as a rice plantIn June water is held in the field to weaken the weeds and clover andallow the rice to sprout through the ground cover.55
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A Merciful Death for Barley ……
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Fortunately for us our printer frie
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maximum per acre yields. But the ba
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squashes and other vegetable by dib
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all needed resources to grow plants
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Invariably our peasant visitors wer
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We would broadcast clover seed in a
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stayed long enough at his farm to l
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knack for appearing at times when t
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are distributed over the field, whi
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This yield is approximately the sam
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ooks and magazines, and was intervi
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hole in the soil with a stick or a
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The Japanese, mikan, is translated
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Look at this GrainI believe that a
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Page 57 and 58: Toward a Do-Nothing FarmingFor thir
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Page 63 and 64: from nature, they spin out further
Page 65 and 66: the sprayed fields. Then it dawned
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Page 82 and 83: of their "remedy" If the situation
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Page 92 and 93: Threshing the crop with the traditi
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Page 114 and 115: hundred plants, ten or twenty perce
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Page 130 and 131: that is not fresh can be sold becau
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Each person should ponder seriously
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nationwide by the government's agri
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production is again being advocated
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Simply Serve Nature and All Is Well
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making money, expanding, developing
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there will be enough food to eat, i
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If you look across the country you
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West takes as its point of departur
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Japan originated with the teachings
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When I had gone this far, the youth
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Farming, fishing, animal raising, t
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When the bamboo sends up its young
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Millet cakes are enjoyed at the aut
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The Culture of FoodWhen asked why w
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food's flavor may vary, depending o
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The best methods of food preparatio
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One might suppose that Western diet
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Summing Up DietIn this world there
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and consciously sustained. But if t
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mind. I hoped that the food mandala
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There are no modern conveniences. S
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People think that when they turn th
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Who Is the Fool?It is said that the
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“If you did nothing at all the wo
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I Was Born to Go to Nursery SchoolA
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that this rice, because it possesse
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Drifting Cloudsand the Illusion of
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active world of elementary particle
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structure is broken down, earthworm
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That night as we were finishing the
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A Village Without War and PeaceA sn
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“In nature, the world of relativi
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the hated enemy. For humans, the fi
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The One-Straw RevolutionAmong the y
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farmers used to compost the straw c
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