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October 3, 2000: Fish Farming May Soon Overtake Cattle Ranching
Today Japan’s 125 million people consume some ... rice paddies. Some 5 million hectares of land are devoted exclusively to fish farming, much of it in carp polyculture. In addition, 1.7 million hectares of rice land is used to produce rice ... carp grown in polycultures, carp grown in combination with rice, or catfish grown in ponds, offer a highly ...
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Methane - Rice
Rice Methane Sources - Rice Paddies At between 50 and 100 million tonnes of methane a year, rice agriculture is a big source of atmospheric ... now exist. Emissions from rice paddies can vary hugely during the course of a year. On average, the rice paddy soil is only ... rice, able to produce a much larger crop per area of rice paddy and so allow for a cut in the area of rice paddies, without a cut in rice ...
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News archive - 2002
Methane Management Changsheng Li, with colleagues in China and US, has revealed how reductions in rice paddy methane have been achieved by changes in water use. More frequent draining helps to ... to cut GHG emissions. 20th August 2002 Rice Paper Research in the Phillipines has shown that methane emissions from rice paddies can be lowered by increasing rice yields. It seems that, where yields are ...
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APHIS Raleigh Plant Protection Center
Wool, greasy (raw): Wool sheared from a sheep and shipped without being ...
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Ramsar Site in Japan
Miyagi Prefecture Major Type of Wetland: Freshwater Lakes, Marshland along theLake Shores, Cultivated Rice Paddies Altitude: 7 meters Area: 559 hectares Ramsar Designation: 13 September 1985 Sakata Municipalities ... Municipalities Involved: Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture Major Type of Wetland: Freshwater pond, Rice Paddies, Marshland Altitude: 2.5-8.0 meters Area: 10 hectares Ramsar Designation: ...
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KIWC Newsletter November 1999 VOL.9 (4/4)
It is said that it was very difficult to produce rice in the past, because these rice paddies as ... Katano-kamoike with water in winter to improve the conditions of the pond and surrounding rice paddies, which are geese feeding grounds. The City of Kaga joined the Anatidae Site Network in ...
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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
... both field workers and consumers of the crops; the fertilization of rice paddies with excreta may lead to excess schistosomiasis infection among rice farmers; and faecal matter used on grazing land can lead ...
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1st GE seed on UK national seed list
IRRI's much-flaunted Green Revolution which "caused massive loss of biological diversity in rice paddies throughout Asia". A torchlit march to IRRI ended in a vigil, with banners, chanting and ... against genetic engineering as they learned of planned field tests of blight-resistant rice strains in the Philippine Rice Research Institute in Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. Founded in 1959 under an agreement ...
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SCWP | Fereydoon Kenar, Ezbaran & Sorkhe Rud Damgahs | Iran
Each damgah consists of a complex of shallow freshwater impoundments situated in harvested rice paddies, developed as duck-hunting areas, and surrounded by forest strips and reed enclosures. The area ...
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Rice in Asia: Too Little Iron, Too Much Arsenic
The Arsenic Problem Asia is facing a growing crisis in the use of arsenic-contaminated ground water for drinking and in irrigation of rice paddies. Arsenic pollution ... -plaques (rust-like deposits) on the surface of roots of rice varieties that accumulate reduced levels of arsenic in grain. Rice paddies will continue to be polluted with arsenic in the soil because ...
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