Rice update

Chano says they are working with PhilRice to develop a new way to grow the rice: Instead of flooding all the time and planting close, the idea is to plant the seedlings 20 cm apart  so they can weed between the rows, and not have to keep the paddies flooded all the time. Since we are organic, it means rototilling or pulling the weeds instead of applying herbicide.

This sounds like the way used in China, which cuts down carbon/methane emissions from rotting weeds in the flooded fields, but I don't know enough about it to compare and contrast.

We also have another organic farmer who wants to use our small rice mill: maybe eventually we will sell his rice along with our rice (rice grown on our small plots of  land and that we arrange to be grown by nearby farmers).