Sumant Kumar was vivacious when he harvested his rice final year. There had been good rains in his encampment of Darveshpura in north-east India and he knew he could urge on a 4 or 5 tonnes per hectare that he customarily managed. But each petiole he cut on his paddy margin nearby a bank of a Sakri stream seemed to import heavier than usual, each pellet of rice was bigger and when his stand was weighed on a aged encampment scales, even Kumar was shocked.
This was not 6 or even 10 or 20 tonnes. Kumar, a bashful immature rancher in Nalanda district of India’s lowest state Bihar, had – regulating usually farmyard fertiliser and but any herbicides – grown an startling 22.4 tonnes of
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