What's nice about rice.Articles about rice cultivation cultivation, tilling or manipulation of the soil, done primarily to eliminate weeds that compete with crops for water and nutrients. Cultivation may be used in crusted soils to increase soil aeration and infiltration of water; it may also be used to move soil to or ("Reforming Rice: Lundberg's Greener Farms," In Brief, January/February 2007) are always welcome, but they do too little to inform readers of the benefits of the practice, such as high yields per unit area and aquifer aquifer (ăk`wĭfər): see artesian well. aquifer In hydrology, a rock layer or sequence that contains water and releases it in appreciable amounts. recharging. I have been growing rice organically for 10 years, and I think the greatest benefit is that rice paddies are miniature wetlands that host a variety of organisms during the growing season growing season, period during which plant growth takes place. In temperate climates the growing season is limited by seasonal changes in temperature and is defined as the period between the last killing frost of spring and the first killing frost of autumn, at which . Many people would be very surprised if they took a close look at the diversity of life among the rice plants. Rick Davis
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