so i harvested my rice with a bunch of friends' help at the end of September. we did it all by hand. we hang the rice to dry, husked it and hulled it after the harvest.
the yield was 150kg, or 330pounds, which is less than half the amount of conventional farming. weeds sort of took away a lot of nutrients the rice wanted, despite all the effort my dad and i put into to weed the rice paddy...
i didnt know how labor intensive organic&old style rice farming was, or how cheap rice is being sold in the market, no matter how the rice is produced. i dont know how much exactly would be reasonable/fair as a price of rice but i think the current price of rice is way too cheap. it is the same as that of 30 years ago! while all the other stuff price has gone up. how do you expect farmers to make a living with rice, and other veggies so cheap?
i dont know.
anyway im glad that i got to provide the rice i grew to my family at least for the year.
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People can't afford to eat organics here, no matter how much they try to close their eyes to the truth. I know I can't afford organic foods. I buy the cheapest foods that I can't find in a dumpster.
But look at it this way, you provided enough rice to deed your family for a year. that's a LOT of rice.
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