How to grow more rice
Submitted by fyl on Sat, 2013/03/02 - 07:34.
This story is not from Nicaragua, it's from India but it seems to cover some issues that come up here. Specifically, it is about growing more rice without the use of GMO seeds, motorized equipment, synthetic fertilizers, ... After reading it I got thinking about how we hear that we need GMO, chemicals, ... with studies that prove this is the case. This article is not about a study. It is about reality.
It is from the UK Guardian and is titled India's Rice Revolution. It is about an amazing success story where the star is a local farmer living without electricity. Dow or Monsanto didn't pay for the publicity. It's just reality -- a reality that makes sense for Nicaragua as well.
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.
stopped at la union..supermarket..
yesterday..checked the price of rice..brown rice..is twice the price of white..not a big rice eater..but would be nice if the world wised up..on rice..sugar and white bread
Rice Cooker
does a great job on both white and brown, different programs, brown does take longer, but is perfect every time. Substitute broth for some of the water and get flavored rice.
$29 in the US, I saw the same rice cooker at PriceMart, didn't note price.
I used to have a rice cooker
I have a All Clad pot that cost more than a rice maker, but it does a good job on other things besides rice.
My favorite thing I left in the US was my Zojirushi hot water dispenser -- which I got at an Korean grocery store in the DC area and which I didn't pay the round eyes price for (more like $50 than $100 plus). Could set it for various temps and it would hold them steady. Great for tea and for pour over and press coffee. I miss it more than the rice maker, but end up sticking a dial thermometer down the spout of an aluminum kettle.
Rebecca Brown
Brown rice is perceived to be one of the Gringo food groups
It's also generally more expensive than white rice in the US, too, though no longer twice as expensive.
The problem is that it doesn't keep as well as white rice. I keep mine refrigerated. What I like about Nicaraguan brown rice is that it cooks faster because it is fresher, but it still takes longer than white rice, so where fuel is expensive or labor-intensive, white is going to be preferred.
Rebecca Brown