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We should grow rice here - Lilith7 - 11-08-2025
Interesting idea, I didn't know we import so much rice & according to Yuki Fukada its a zero waste crop, you can make rope, bags, even houses from it.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/food/why-we-need-to-grow-more-rice-in-new-zealand
RE: We should grow rice here - Oh_hunnihunni - 11-08-2025
Labour intensive crop...
RE: We should grow rice here - harm_less - 11-08-2025
(11-08-2025, 09:32 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Labour intensive crop...Absolutely. Margaret Visser's book Much Depends on Dinner has an intriguing chapter covering the way rice cultivation has been responsible for the social and population structures of the countries it has historically been produced in. Well worth a read.
RE: We should grow rice here - heisenberg - 12-08-2025
(11-08-2025, 09:32 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Labour intensive crop...
plenty of unemployed layabouts available of course they wont work so we import overseas workers
RE: We should grow rice here - Oh_hunnihunni - 12-08-2025
Of course, you, having had vast experience in the fields day in day out, would know all about what it takes to labour intensively?
RE: We should grow rice here - heisenberg - 12-08-2025
(Yesterday, 09:32 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Of course, you, having had vast experience in the fields day in day out, would know all about what it takes to labour intensively?
yep yep thats what it is
RE: We should grow rice here - Oh_hunnihunni - 12-08-2025
Uh huh. Pics or we simply do not believe it!
RE: We should grow rice here - Lilith7 - 12-08-2025
(Yesterday, 11:26 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Uh huh. Pics or we simply do not believe it!
Oh, how cynical!
Although of course, pics would settle it.
Or not...
