Philippe Villers and Martin Gummert

download pdf   Hermetic storage of rice is becoming increasingly popular across Asia, and for good reason—as well as being transportable, it is better than air-conditioned  storage and almost as good as a cold room, at a fraction of the cost of either The wax seals found on ancient Greek and Roman jars known as amphoras tell us that hermetic storage has been used to preserve grains for more than 2,500 years. Today, hermetic storage using modern materials has...
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Yothin Konboon

download pdf Sometimes the best inventions are accidental. In northeastern Thailand, farmers are adopting a weed-control method first taught to them by their animals. If performed correctly, the practice of planting rice by broadcasting rice seeds directly into unflooded soil offers several advantages over the usual practice of transplanting seedlings into flooded fields. Farmers can save time and labor, less water is required to establish the crop, and dry directseeded rice suffers...
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