China introduces plastic rice

[sapphi_snake]

Kasz216 said:

highwaystar101 said:

It seems to me that producing plastic/potato rice would be more expensive and resource intensive than actually just producing real rice.

More expesive, but less time intensive and less enviromentally taxing.

China has been moving to try and wean people off rice and move them to Potatoes because Potatoes take much less water to grow.  It takes 1,900 liters to grow 1kg of rice... and only 500 liters to grow 1kg of Potatoes.  So it's a safer crop to avoid droughts

Additionally Rice farming takes many many hours of expert manpower... the more and more you alter your fields the higher yield... it's not uncommon for rice farmers to spend 8 hours on individual family sized field  while potatoes you stick in the ground and you have at most 2 hours work for a regular family sized farm.

Apparently China has been trying to move away from rice and too potatoes because of drought hitting a lot of their farmland... along with other reasons.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/30/AR2010053003751.html

I wouldn't be surprised if this was part of their misplaced idea to wean people off rice.

O_o

Governments are EVIL!!!

 

(Granted, they are China)