What Rice-Farming Cultures Can Teach Us about Pandemic Preparedness
Briefly

Rice farming is hard.It's complicated.Traditional rice farming takes twice the amount of labor as crops like wheat, corn and potatoes.Paddy rice was built on irrigation networks that forced farmers to cooperate with each other.Rain falls on the fields of both rogue and cooperative wheat farmers, but irrigation networks flood paddy fields only if farmers work together to build them and manage to keep them working.
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