Alternatives to rice as prime food source

Try other food on same plantations as prime food source.

Currently and since several months you see in my blog the reminder:

"Open your mind
try something new
think out of the box
be creative and
innovative - enjoy!"

That applies for all people in all situations of life.

For example rice fields and rice cultivation. Who says that the tradition of the approximately 3 Billions choosing rice as their main food source is right ? Who ways that because rice is good or healthy rice needs to be the only healthy food source ?

The total work, efforts, energy and also chemicals and fertilizers applied on rice fields is huge compared to the amount of rice harvested per field ( per sq meter ). There are other mixed gardening, mixed culture systems more suitable, more natural and far less work intense than the current widespread global rice production!

Having such huge terrace systems and fields with irrigation systems as the global rice field farmers have created means in no way that rice is all that grows on these very fields. Instead try to switch from rice all year long with 2 or even 3 rice harvest perfield per year to a mix culture.

Either one rice harvest during actual rainy season when all fields might be too wet for most other plants to grow, PLUS during dry season corn, potatoes, vegetable, salads or any other food source fitting into the soil and light / water combination of that season.

Even moving completely away from rice plantation in many fields toward other crop or food by avoiding the flooding of the ricefields on a permanent basis and flow only as needed once every several days or weeks for irrigation.

Tradition as a must for rice farmers to do all the heavy work is no justification that rice always needs to remain the primary food source. While 3 Billions use to eat mainly rice - that also means we have approximately another 3 Billions living on NON-rice ...

God gave us all a huge choice of food as healthy source for our needs for vitamins, calories, minerals, etc. Delicious, tasty and healthy alternatives we all just need to try to enjoy.