New method for growing rice

In Indonesia Bayer is combining the new method of direct seeding of pregerminated rice with the efficient use of crop protection agents and fertilizer.

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Science & Technology

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• rice
• grow
• Bayer
• CropScience

[bringbackgismo]

won't the poisonous fertilzer result in a soil erosion in a long perspective, besides adding chemicals to things you eat that is? Please elaborate your method

[BayerTVinternational]

@bringbackgismo

Thank you for posting. It is our firm believe that this project has the potential to increase the production of rice in an environmental friendly manner. You might be surprised to hear that we do not sell fertilisers at all. And before our agrochemicals arrive at farmers, they have to undergo a long and strict evaluation process. Over years they must proof that they do not harm nature. Only if they pass this process successfully we can ask for an approval by state authorities.

[bigtoe416]

Or you could just do what Masanobu Fukuoka suggests and create mud balls with seed in the middle, toss them out by hand, not flood the fields, don't spray the fields, and encourage wildlife.

[gardengreentheworld]

@BayerTVinternational you say your product is tested "over years" but you dont say how many, and even though they dont "harm nature" now, or in the few years it was tested, you have no clue what the long term damages will be to you ground water and native plants and wildlife. I know you can't go natural, because you're Bayer. Bayer is a company. Companies make money. Its what you do. So no, I'm not telling you the company to go natural, I'm imploring you the reader/ youtuber to.

[joshuadfa]

Go organic. No to synthetic fertilizers and toxic chemicals!

[Jayrock37343]

@bigtoe416 you could do that, but then we'd be working with nature. And man wants to overcome nature, not work with it.

[hardmancanada]

Rice is the best food ever made and that's final

[bomb1234able]

In Indonesia all they poop in the paddy, In Jakarta they are rich,

[viewnusflytrap]

The people can presprout without bayer so a 10% increase due to Bayers chemicals is a lie, furthermore even if a 10% increase meant not having to import rice on a bad year it still is not worth having poisonous chemicals on your rice every year. That being said please don't keep up the good work Bayer!

[viewnusflytrap]

LOL, we will increase your rice production by ten percent, than you can sell that ten percent and buy chemicals from us for next years harvest. This nets you a profit of poisonous rice instead of organic rice. LOL Bayer why don't you get really create and just think of a way to profit from organic beneficial methods of growing. That way you can keep your souls.

[calebsf]

your chemicals are killing the earth with your evil ignorance.

[nerdmom920]

@bigtoe416 Umm, that would take rice farmers out of Bayer's profit cycle. No need for special machines or pre-sprouted rice, or the crop "protection" agents. I mean, what are you thinking???

[bringbackgismo]

@BayerTVinternational Thanks for reply. Good luck with the project!