You hear a lot of talk these days about the benefits of the “Good Rice Movement” and the “Green Revolution.” Because these methods depend on weak, “improved” seed varieties, it becomes necessary for the farmer to apply chemicals and insecticides eight or ten times during the growing season. In a short time the soil is burned clean of microorganisms and organic matter. The life of the soil is destroyed and crops come to be dependent on nutrients added from the outside in the form of chemical fertilizer.
