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Published online 17 August 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000817-9
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Mixed rice
David Adam investigates a new trial showing that fields of mixed rice fight pests and grow better than modern monocultures.
Modern agricultural methods are given a bloody nose this week -- by a traditional alternative viewed by many as archaic and inefficient. Growing mixed rice varieties not only offers better protection against disease than agricultural 'monocultures' but bigger yields also, the largest trial of its kind shows.
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