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Nature 428, 360-361 (25 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428360a
Rice cultivation: Feast or famine?
Christopher Surridge1
- Christopher Surridge is a senior biology editor at Nature.
Abstract
Proponents call it a miracle. Detractors call it smoke and mirrors. Will the System of Rice Intensification feed the hungry third world or needlessly divert farmers from tried and true techniques? Christopher Surridge investigates.
Rice feeds more than half the people in the world; but not well and not for much longer. As the population rises, so does the demand for rice, yet yields of the crop are levelling out.
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