Rice | How Does it Grow?

[@TrueFoodTV]

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[@MichaelRei99]

Another fantastic video!!

[@ramcir8766]

Hi crush..

[@LucaJacobson8168]

Great another "RACIAL" insert, no thanks. No DONATION, SUBSCRIPTION and a THUMBS-DOWN.

[@eliasnayal6616]

Hi mam, good day and Advance Merry Christmas. I'm trained as rice specialist here in the Philippines under Philippine Rice Research Institute, I'm currently working at Agricultural Training Institute as training specialist handling organic agriculture program. One of my training is on Organic rice production, im in 14 years in organic industry and assisting several Filipino organic rice producer in area of our office coverage. This vedio of you is very informative. I will introduce this regenerative farming like what you've shown in here. Keep safe always and God bless.

[@LucaJacobson8168]

@@eliasnayal6616 don't forget to add the RACIAL DISCRIMINATION expose to your showing. It's very PREVALENT her in the U.S.A., but only if you're BLACK or IF white looking to expand your NARRATIVE of never ending FORGIVENESS, if you've been a SLAVE OWNER that is... 🙄🙄🙄

[@knightshade6232]

We Asians can't survive without rice 3times a day, we are thought at a young age that to never spoil just a single leftover rice grain, for it is the blood, sweat, tears of a farmer, quoted by my great-grandparents... planting rice is difficult, back-breaking and labor-intensive, in my village farmers needs to borrow money just to plant rice and if the harvest season failed due to pest or drought, they are all decimated.. that's why I KUDOS to those rice farmers...

[@babagandu]

There is bacteria that grows on rice within an hour

[@princeo15]

Anything organic between 5 deg to 60 deg will get bacteria in 1 hour

[@hjsop1]

Nope.

[@thangkhelma26]

dont lie bro

[@juanherrera1190]

Kap bro u can survive without rice

[@carlieamado6153]

My grandma too is a rice farmer and she uses the dry method for most of the season.

[@aleenaprasannan2146]

I'm sorry, but I am very disappointed at this one for not giving the complete picture about low land rice, because they are carbon sinks. You skipped how wetlands with the same anaerobic process becomes the biggest and the most efficient natural carbon sequestration sinks. Not all paddy is environmentally destructive. There are both Wetland varieties/ low land varieties of rice and dryland varieties of rice. It is only destructive when lowland varieties are grown in flooded terraces in highlands, which doesn't naturally have Wetland conditions. Infact it is ideal for low lying land which are below sea level and are naturally flooded constantly. Also the methane produced from water logging is not released into the atmosphere. Instead low land rice paddies does the same and sequester carbon within the soil as methane. That is how of improving soil health by increase the organic matter makes it a carbon sink. Low land paddy fields are carbon sinks, and they are protected by the same environmental laws that protect mangroves for the same reason. It is actually illegal to level a lowland paddy field and use it for anything else. You have a huge audience and if this half knowledge catch fire and all low land paddy cultivation gets miscategorizedand wrongfully villified to be the same the flooded steppe paddies in highland, all those farmers of low land paddies who do an important job of preserving carbon sinks, would lose their business as well. You can do a better job at promoting American agriculture, without making such a costly mistake for environment P.S. If my comment catches anybody's attention, please google 'lowland paddy fiels and carbon sequestration'

[@AmaraEmerson]

You’re completely ignoring the fact that lowland rice fields do not necessarily act as net CH4 sinks, and CH4 has 25 times more greenhouse effect than CO2. Not only that, carbon sequestration unless you have peat soils, has a finite capacity and over time will reach a steady state even if it was sequestering.

[@OJesusX3]

Our Earth handles gas pretty well, we just need to take care of our soil for our kids and for our generations to come. 😊🌎🌄

[@babagandu]

Yeah there is a lot of mistakes in the video

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Can you provide a specific citation? I am finding some controversy over if lowland rice paddies are a sink or not, and it depends on location. Which region is it proven? :)

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

This video focused on the US. Does the US have the same types of climate conditions to cause a carbon sink?

[@sohelmallik0891]

Thanks Nicole for making this video, as a little kid growing up in India back in the 80's and 90's I used to see the immense rice fields flooded with water, and I never knew why it was like that until today, we just took it for granted that it is what it is and sadly no one realizes the impact it has, I still remember when we used to go for vacation to our ancestral places where rice was harvested in the villages, the day of the harvest was so much fun in the sense that I used to climb up on the hand cut plants being hauled in bullock carts and then beaten by hand to separate the rice seeds to boiling them in vast mounds to make it ready :) I probably can still smell it with my eyes closed, 30 years on , here in NJ looking at this video it made me so nostalgic, thanks again for the video !!

[@mistersingh6470]

I am from punjab, India. Our state is the largest producer of paddy in the country but we have to go against the nature and draw out water for paddy in summers which is causing the water table of punjab to drop down at a very fast pace. Hope, there is some solution to the problem...

[@johnjude2685]

Systems that works are sometimes like a runaway train heading to its future. Thanks for caring for our earth and children ❤

[@aviksarkar8494]

West Bengal

[@Hillcliber690]

It's west Bengal

[@rbnhd1976]

NUCLEAR POWER

[@BlackMambo5]

Punjab crops are pathetic in quality, low grade. Not to mention Punjabi farmers are holding Agriculture in India hostage for decades. Pathetic state with pathetic farmers.

[@sparky3869]

Thank you Nazirak for taking the time for doing the natures way of growing rice , and helping this planet...I will support your product...

[@Javanese-Boy]

Rice is my daily food , greeting from INDONESIA 🇲🇨🇲🇨

[@tictac4782]

Not only Indonesia okay..???!!!! But whole of Asia

[@Javanese-Boy]

@@tictac4782 i think Youre from Malaysia? Haha sorry if its wrong. I just Said ITS mu daily food, i dont even Said that rice its originally or Only from indonesia. If ITS true Youre from malaysia, i can see it. WAHAHAHHAHAA

[@Javanese-Boy]

@@tictac4782 anyway DONT BE JEALOUS ABOUT INDONESIA. I know you dont say that clearly, but from your word everyone can know it 🤣✌️🤭

[@tictac4782]

@@Javanese-Boy what..??? Malaysia??? LOL. I'm from Thailand okay.

[@rishadar]

Im from Antarctic, i eat rice too

[@K-Fed]

This episode was definitely worth waiting for. It has a slightly different feel about it than previous episodes because of the history bytes. And for me, the most interesting part was growing the rice on unused portions of people's properties. You don't often see a beautiful home on a hill with a well manicured lawn terminated by a small monoculture farm plot. Looking forward to part two.

[@emalinel]

Oh...I thought the flooding of rice fields was damaging because it diverged so much water from watersheds/other aquatic ecosystems and habitats. That's interesting, didn't know the process of rice farming produced so much methane gas

[@ariszoleta5799]

yes but there is also what we called aerobic rice which uses less water and alternate wet and drying

[@IamMySelf7872]

depend on variety, but most rice need alot water. here, we even use rice field to raise fish so we can have double harvest and reduce chemical using. and know a lot farmer change from chemical fertilizer into organic one.

[@nguyentuan1990]

the methane is misleading, once you harvest the seed and have the tiler decompose, it also releases methane. Not much different than under water.

[@JoseMolina-ij3xx]

Considering that Rice paddies are pretty static in their location, wouldn't it make some sense to collect the methane gas from the paddies to use as an energy source?

[@desiebawden61]

Looks like it’s time for a change in rice growing techniques 🌎🌸 we need more people to care like this super man 🌻

[@thaliacrew1]

I appreciate your HDIG series! I especially appreciate your meticulous research. I'm a science teacher, so hopefully, you will take this point in the spirit it is given, with the intent of fact dissemination. The term "chemical-free" should not be used because everything, except the vacuum of space, is a chemical, including you and me! (we're basically a sac of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen slung over a calcium-phosphorus enriched frame). A better term would be synthetic chemical-free, referring to man-made chemicals, such as pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer, or growth hormones. Keep up the good work!

[@TrueFoodTV]

You are absolutely right!! Language is powerful, and I like to make sure I say what I mean and I mean what I say. It's just that when you're pressed for time (no one's going to sit and watch an hour-long episode on rice), you have to choose when to use a colloquial meaning vs a technical one. Know what I mean? That said, I will take it into consideration in the future. Thank you so much for watching and for your feedback!

[@OJesusX3]

Thanks Nicole! Stay awesome! 😊🌎🌄

[@wyleong4326]

I soooo agree with you and have been trying to share this with my friends and family, most thinking that I’m being pedantic and snarky. Good to know, I’m not alone.

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

It makes me happy when I see a local farm on the food package’s label. For example, my arugula is grown just 80 miles west of home.

[@mlg779]

yes I started growing rice in my garden 4 years ago and grows perfectly without being flooded.

[@TardigradeSurviverofapocalypse]

As someone form the west coast of India rice is the main food for us ...we grow rice only during rainy days especially in my area because it's water intense crop...we have much varieties of rice in my province like different colour black rice brown rice and even with different shapes...though in my province rice is not staple food for everyone ..only western ghats and western coast eat much rice based food.. southern part staple food is finger millet and northern eat jower/sorghum...my province is so diverse and I love it..

[@sanajitdas8365]

we need to revolutionize the rice production process again.

[@hawkeye5129]

Don't get so much influence by foreigners

[@jamesp8459]

One of the benefits to growing in this manner is all that shade produced by the rice will help keep water in which may require less. That's probably why he can get away with just drip irrigating. I didn't know rice couldn't be grown without a patty. Pretty cool, now I want to try it myself.

[@HaiNguyen-hn5jm]

Rice is our main staple in Vietnam. Greetings from Vietnam guys

[@debbiep268]

Very interesting. Just proves a lot of the American blacks are more American than most Americans who treat them bad. But I never knew rice grew like Wheat.

[@Darksparkz22]

He is my neighbor and is an inspiration to our community. Somehow this channel showed up on my recommendations and seeing his image drew my interest to click the video. A do it yourself minded brother! Thanks for sharing.

[@Jin88866]

I just bought a 3kg bag of organic brown rice from Yamagata prefecture. I can't wait to eat it tomorrow!

[@gentlemanfarmer6042]

For people saying that the way you harvest the rice, depends say on the person vs. the rice is wrong..... The "Dry" method vs "Wet" method depends on the species of rice. Upland vs Lowland Species, it's not just one species of "Domestic Rice" , it's several, based on a few origin locations in the world. Older species of Long Grain Rice, such as "Carolina Gold" are def better off in a "Wet" method. And in most Asian Countries, that use flooding there is a symbiotic relationship with "Mosquito Fern" or Azolla Plant. This plant, reduces CO2 and other gasses in the atmosphere..it works sort of like legumes. Look up the "Azolla Event", these plants helped cause the Ice Age. I don't understand, I love this channel it usually backs up and confirms, older more sustainable methods of Agriculture....such as the various kinds of grains, and the bread they make. I say this because in most of the Asian Countries, these farmers don't worry about the methane, because the Azolla and the relationship they have in paddies with the rice. Not to mention that rice paddies in China have been around so long, they are there own ecosystems, with species now, that only exist in the flooded paddies now.

[@nunyabiznes33]

Get your race out of my rice. And leave my fish-filled paddy alone!

[@Aaronerer5]

I guess you can say that Nazirak has... RICED to the challenge!

[@TrueFoodTV]

I see what you did there ;)

[@martinsolano7894]

This is a great man God bless him and his family for he is laying down the prosperity for them, leading by example and culture.

[@Ssyylll0103]

My morning starts with rice it's main part of our meal because we are Indians☺️🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@SpacedApe]

"Naturopathic doctor" Yeah, no. Not a thing. At least, not a legit thing. I'll give you you're trying to tell a story here, but you're already heading down a bad path by relying on the 'expertise' of someone with very little knowledge of the subject matter they're trying to provide. And calling him a "physician" is an insult to all the people who put in the actual time and work and sweat and tears to become true experts on the human body and condition. He may be, and I'm sure is, a very nice and caring person. But you're wrong to perpetuate this nonsense.

[@Gothhippie667]

Your videos are informative and fascinating. That being said, 10 year old Monty Python fan me laughed when you said "huge tracts of land".

[@JamesCasatelli]

Glad I'm not the only one who caught that.

[@LGW3-Orchids-Exotics]

I love your channel and videos Nicole! Extremely informative. I was fascinated to see that most Rice doesn't need to be flooded with water (like you see overseas). I guess the original native rices grew near swamps and other waterways. Where is part 2? More videos please 🙏

[@AngieMeadKing]

Thank you for this eye opener

[@SubramaniamLakshminarayanan]

We in India, have grown rice for several thousands of years using the flooded field method. It is a technique perfected over time. If all this talk about greenfield gases, methane and the resulting ozone hole etc is true, the whole of Asia, which lives on rice should have been extinct by now from the massive ozone hole that you lead to. So, please be known, that nothing of what you say, obviously fed by some scientists sitting in a climate-controlled lab that produces a hundred times more greenhouse gases makes sense.

[@OJesusX3]

That's been my experience too. Our Earth has an incredible way of dealing with gas. We just need to be mindful what we put into our air in the form of pollutants and to focus on building strong topsoil. Stay beautiful out there my friends! 😊🌎🌄

[@Noone-rt6pw]

Good to see you're back in business! Louisiana generates a large quantity of rice. SC has some. But this is Louisiana😉😉😉😉, which she has sugarcane, Rustin peaches, Saline watermelons.

[@zoeware6926]

I'd love to see your channel get real captions! It would really add to the quality of your videos from the perspective of people who are deaf and hard of hearing (like me). I'll probably watch this eventually (and enjoy it) but if it had captions I'd be watching it right now.

[@raist315]

This is one of my favorite KZbin channels, and this video is another reason why.

[@magovenor]

I grew up allergic to rice. It was one of a series of food allergies. Whenever I would eat it, no matter how small the amount, my back would break out in a rash. Only when I was on Hajj, and rice was the only carbs available did the allergy subside. Al-Hamdulillah!

[@ZacchaeusNifong]

I thought you stopped making videos! I was subbed but didn't have the bell 🔔 on. Ugh. Anyway. Happy new year. Thanks for such wonderful video production (and content). Always your fan. ✌️ 💙

[@TrueFoodTV]

Welcome back 😉

[@tealcoconut]

This was very informative. Thanks for sharing! I've loved these episodes for years. I am a fan of sustainability and being environmentally-friendly. At the same time, it's important to recognize some modern inventions/renovations of how processes are performed (e.g. growing and harvesting crops) helped get food to much more people in less time and with less energy input. It's not all bad to have industrialized systems. I appreciate us getting back to nature (I love nature myself.), but I'm not sure most people want to spend the time and energy it takes to do what it takes to grow your own food, especially when you are going back to methods such as harvesting early so the birds won't eat your entire yield. Just throwing that out there. Not to mention, before rice, it's cows that's produce the most methane. So, we can talk about rice and improving its environmental footprint. However, just by reducing our meat intake, we are making a larger difference than by making large investments to alter the rice industry.

[@willcookmakeup]

Oooo yay!!! I was waiting for another episode

[@gohpaul3089]

🙋🇸🇬 Singapore fan Rice is our life , Thanks for sharing this💖 wonderful video with the great farmer 👍👍

[@MichaelRei99]

I’m growing “Grain in the USA”!! There is a reason why we feed the world!

[@desiebawden61]

Funny the tiny country of the Netherlands grows almost as much food as enormous America and are only growing about 60 percent of capacity . They are one of the most agriculturally advanced countries In the world .🌎🌸

[@MichaelRei99]

@@desiebawden61if the Us used more than half of our landmass for farmland we’d grow more food than could be consumed. Plus those greenhouses must cost a fortune.

[@MichaelRei99]

@@desiebawden61 you need to pony up some statistics to back up that claim.

[@TomRussellatAFA]

Hmm, I thought we were going to have a video on Rice - How does it grow?

[@WestonBoucher]

Can ANYONE talk about the subject matter without inserting virtue signaling, racism and agenda? 🙄

[@MisterTee2010]

Merry Christmas Nicole and Family 🤗😘

[@feriedouneftekhari584]

It is very nice to see another informative video from Nicole. Keep up the good work. Feriedoun London

[@TrueFoodTV]

Thank you for watching!

[@dylanp_ayz8016]

7:08 is when the video starts.

[@ericzerrudo7885]

I am waiting in earnest for Part 2. When would be the release date? Nasirahk Amen's method of rice farming uses a fraction of rice seed, and because it does not flood the paddies, flame weeding can be used requiring a lot less labor.

[@MrFish-dc1zm]

Good thing I stumbled on to your channel, Hello from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

[@LazarusPit]

You are back......❤️

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

I've eagerly waited for rice history for so long!

[@commonomics]

I don’t understand why these videos don’t get more views

[@brandonminiman]

I've always wondered how rice grows.. Now I know ✅

[@johnwandembruck5954]

Yesss another how does it grow video! Welcome back :)

[@joshuanovakowski8293]

Interesting. Still keep CRT praxis out of your content and focus on where the food comes from.

[@sarajamal799]

Great work and huge Amount of effort!

[@ShwaaraVLogs]

This is definitely new approach , new method to grow rice. I been raised in rice fields all my childhood and even today my father is a rice farmer . This is good to know ,watch and implement also . Thanks for your efforts and sharing 😊🙏

[@Renagade5150]

You had me until we started worrying about flooded rice patty's producing methane thereby warming the globe and DESTROYING LIFE ON EARTH IN THE NEXT 500 YEARS, oh no! LOL

[@Zednor9]

I really enjoyed this episode, as I'm very interested in growing upland rice in my garden, despite minimal success at that so far. I'll be trying again this year. I was surprised and a little disappointed there was no mention of "The One-Straw Revolution" or anything about Masanobu Fukuoka at all. That's another great story about a much earlier realization that there was a better way than flooded paddy rice farming, from the early 1900's. I learned a lot and really enjoyed the historical research I did related to Fukuoka.

[@Plainejan]

Its finally here...... ahhhhhhhh amazing.....thank you

[@John-pm7zr]

I use to live in my grandpa’s farm. Rice is amazing! I remember trying to catch for frogs around the rice fields. 🐸 thank you!

[@melissahall7009]

Thank you for this, & happy to find out about Curiousity! Subscribing now!

[@jornspirit]

wow, this was so informative, Nicole - thanks!!! 💖

[@TrueFoodTV]

You're very welcome! Thank you for watching!

[@vijayabalan1188]

I lot of respect you and your channel from INDIA......

[@archur111]

I just learned something! Thank you!

[@shyamsubramanian1885]

I love your videos. Personal story for every video and a clear history of the item being described. Thanks for these videos.

[@politicallyincorrect931]

2 times a day, throughout my life, thanks rice for making me survive all this years…love you rice on behalf of all South Indians…

[@fredallen5999]

Very informative video thank you for this insight!

[@Jon-iv6gh]

Flooding rice fields are herbicide free weed control but flooding rice fields also provide an environment for fish, snails and crustaceans to grow. Tilapia, Carp, Catfish, Eels, Shrimp, Crayfish and Escargot are staple secondary yields in Asia. It' been done for thousands of years. If it's not broken, why change it?

[@aledaabraham1810]

I LOVED 😍 this episode & can't wait for part 2!

[@machinesofgod]

Wow, what a video! This man and the host are legends!

[@OJesusX3]

They are aren't they! 😊🌎🌄

[@tmccull98]

there's a study about reducing the green house methane that cows produce by having them to eat seaweed, can we grow rice in the sea or pump that water into rice fields to prevent the weeds and the methane that comes from it's decomposition? We will have to get with the government to help these farmers afford the equipment they need as the big boys will not come down on the price nor scale down the equipment.

[@RDReynoldsOutdoors]

Very interesting. Great Video!!

[@danielpicassomunoz2752]

Nice report on SRI and dry grown rice, hope you cover colored varieties of rice as they should have more antioxidants. Hope you address the Arsenic bioaccumulation due to former biocide use un part 2.

[@henceldeanon9233]

Let, sir visit the Philippines... We have a moving rice milling machine, we called "Travelling", because it travel from one place to another finding farmers to mill their dried rice... its is operated by a simple car engine and one or two persons...

[@manualriceplanter]

Why most rice farmers are still transplanting by hand hardly instead of use mechanized planters? Because they have not find suitable, workable and affordable planters although those planters are excellent, but they have high requests against: 1) Rice seedlings. 2) Paddy field. 3) Operating. Seedlings must standardised and growing in plastic tray. All traditional rice seedlings can not be used. Paddy field must suitable for those planters. Farmers must have superb operating skills. But very few farmers and areas can follow these requests. In the other hand, most of them are too costly for most farmers. Thank you for watching. Mr.Liu

[@salamandiusbraveheart4183]

Half of Asia used to be covered in Mangrove forests and swamps. Now it's covered in highways and rice fields. Go figure

[@Matt_Hatt3r]

This is very interesting. Looking forward to part two

[@jshicke]

I loved this. Rice has been grown on this planet for 9,000 years. It wasn't always done in a flooded field. Yet we continued to do it this way because that's the way our ancestors did it. Technology has advanced. Glad to see a thinker working outside the box to find new ways. It may even be a cheaper way to do it, making rice cheaper for the hungry masses to afford. That said, not all green house gasses are identical in composition. Carbon Dioxide once in atmosphere, will stay in atmosphere unless it gets trapped in the soil or plants. Methane degrades in atmosphere, with a half life of 10 years. Methane goes away. Co2 doesn't. The U.S. Cattle herd has already declined about 20% from 1984. That means that methane from U.S. cattle is already less than it was 37 years ago.

[@technologyeducation157]

This video is the result of teaching critical rice theory to children. I should feel guilty for eating white rice?

[@blessedbeauty2293]

- wow this video is deep. I love to learn new things. Thanks again for another amazing video !! Xoxo greatly appreciate

[@Noone-rt6pw]

Oh there's the still Salt mines in Avery Island by New Iberia, which the original hot sauce came from,, called Tabasco Sauce. Where you would love a field day there. They used fix Bloody Marie's there. And you can surely get a hot link, which even if hit, you'll still want another bite. And yes boudin. Crawfish Boudin is my favored. Which crawfish farming is there but are mostly fished. Oh, alligator harvesting and farming. The fellow there has great insights! Where I wish I had my homestead I had planned. The fellow does know what he's talking about! He's right, very right.

[@venishasingh7471]

Thank you for bringing back how does it grow❤

[@MrHdaod]

I was hoping to learn something but I learned nothing

[@mysticwildflower]

Great video, and informative.

[@SamSam-qm1li]

I love this channel but what is this nonsense about African farmers finding it hard to farm. As an immigrant I found (California) America as the land of opportunity. Everyone can work, save and make the life they want.

[@rodneybagyan5080]

Proud filipino rice farmer here👍♥️♥️♥️

[@amyj4438]

You never fail!!!!! Amazing episode!

[@zodiaczone5107]

Philippines needs to learn this.

[@Thathumanoverthere1701]

I deeply appreciate the unapologetic truth in the history of Rice production in the US. Thank you for objective information.

[@davetaddeo]

what a great episode. it's so nice to see this kind of agriculture and your enthusiasm for it. thanks for bringing it to us.

[@Jbiglin]

Awesome as always Nicole!

[@elparaisodedenis]

Amazing Nicole as always, adore you so much, you are the best, a lot of greetings from Serbia !

[@MUtley-rf8vg]

[@CML3327]

From what company did you purchase that harvester? I know Japan does a lot of small scale intensive farming, so it doesn't surprise me they have a machine like this.

[@Satyamsingh0077]

I am from India 🇮🇳 and I am your big fan ma'am.

[@brucepoole8552]

Here in California rice is grown at the expense of fish and wildlife, our salmon are disappearing, the pesticides are killing birds.

[@iwillexplain6802]

Rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner😅😅 greetings from The Philippines 🇵🇭 ❤️

[@land-olarson4610]

Growing rice at 38°58'N. That's impressive!

[@land-olarson4610]

I'm wanting to experiment with growing rice next summer. I live at 36°53'N, but have an elev. of 6700' which may cause some issues.

[@Aisomar]

Worth the wait.

[@blessedbeauty2293]

- YAYY A NEW VIDEO!! Thanks for another awesome video 📹

[@ParitoshTheGr8]

Omg… never knew you gonna do it on rice one day !