TEAM presenter showing farmers the regenerative fields Farmers are highly practical people, they need to overcome practical challenges created by weather, pests, diseases, drought and floods every day, so they prefer to see real solutions. PowerPoint slides are just 'blah, blah, blah' on a screen and professors in their smart jackets with clean boots are viewed with scepticism. So how can you convince a battle-hardened farmer to change the way he or she manages the farm to w

Unfortunately, due to the complexity of monitoring compliance with low carbon techniques used by hundreds of small rice farmers, many of the claims being made for carbon reduction for low carbon rice are simply not true. The average age of Thai rice farmers is 61 and many are second or third generation farmers, so even after extensive training they will often revert to their traditional ways of farming, ignoring the controls of water levels and fertiliser use required to ach

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