Farmers in India growing world record amounts of rice ? with no GM, and no herbicide - GoFuckYourself.com

wehateporn · 02-16-2013, 06:20 PM

Turns out the GMO thing was just a BS money-making scam, but I'm sure most GFYers had already worked that out

In a village in India's poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice ? with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-dev...ion?CMP=twt_fd

"Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he harvested his rice last year. There had been good rains in his village of Darveshpura in north-east India and he knew he could improve on the four or five tonnes per hectare that he usually managed. But every stalk he cut on his paddy field near the bank of the Sakri river seemed to weigh heavier than usual, every grain of rice was bigger and when his crop was weighed on the old village scales, even Kumar was shocked.

This was not six or even 10 or 20 tonnes. Kumar, a shy young farmer in Nalanda district of India's poorest state Bihar, had ? using only farmyard manure and without any herbicides ? grown an astonishing 22.4 tonnes of rice on one hectare of land. This was a world record and with rice the staple food of more than half the world's population of seven billion, big news.

It beat not just the 19.4 tonnes achieved by the "father of rice", the Chinese agricultural scientist Yuan Longping, but the World Bank-funded scientists at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, and anything achieved by the biggest European and American seed and GM companies. And it was not just Sumant Kumar. Krishna, Nitish, Sanjay and Bijay, his friends and rivals in Darveshpura, all recorded over 17 tonnes, and many others in the villages around claimed to have more than doubled their usual yields.

More here http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-dev...ion?CMP=twt_fd

MrMaxwell · 02-16-2013, 06:30 PM

Whatever happened, it'll soon be illegal. Everyone knows you can't grow food without dousing them in chemicals. Those fools must be crazy. Pffft.

DBS.US · 02-16-2013, 06:37 PM

Monsanto will sue them

L-Pink · 02-16-2013, 06:50 PM

I bet his entire family shits in the paddies instead.

2013 · 02-16-2013, 06:51 PM

wish you could have taken the extra 2 seconds and just posted a pic.

02-16-2013, 06:20 PM	#1
wehateporn Promoting Debate on GFY Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 27,173	Farmers in India growing world record amounts of rice ? with no GM, and no herbicide Turns out the GMO thing was just a BS money-making scam, but I'm sure most GFYers had already worked that out In a village in India's poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice ? with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages? http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-dev...ion?CMP=twt_fd "Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he harvested his rice last year. There had been good rains in his village of Darveshpura in north-east India and he knew he could improve on the four or five tonnes per hectare that he usually managed. But every stalk he cut on his paddy field near the bank of the Sakri river seemed to weigh heavier than usual, every grain of rice was bigger and when his crop was weighed on the old village scales, even Kumar was shocked. This was not six or even 10 or 20 tonnes. Kumar, a shy young farmer in Nalanda district of India's poorest state Bihar, had ? using only farmyard manure and without any herbicides ? grown an astonishing 22.4 tonnes of rice on one hectare of land. This was a world record and with rice the staple food of more than half the world's population of seven billion, big news. It beat not just the 19.4 tonnes achieved by the "father of rice", the Chinese agricultural scientist Yuan Longping, but the World Bank-funded scientists at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, and anything achieved by the biggest European and American seed and GM companies. And it was not just Sumant Kumar. Krishna, Nitish, Sanjay and Bijay, his friends and rivals in Darveshpura, all recorded over 17 tonnes, and many others in the villages around claimed to have more than doubled their usual yields. More here http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-dev...ion?CMP=twt_fd __________________ Sexy Girls Teasing

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MrMaxwell Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 10,057	Whatever happened, it'll soon be illegal. Everyone knows you can't grow food without dousing them in chemicals. Those fools must be crazy. Pffft.

02-16-2013, 06:50 PM	#4
L-Pink working on my tan Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Florida/Kentucky Posts: 39,151	I bet his entire family shits in the paddies instead.

02-16-2013, 06:51 PM	#5
2013 So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: lollling Posts: 4,390	wish you could have taken the extra 2 seconds and just posted a pic.