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The Owen Jones Podcast
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Annual Rice Is Better Than Annual Rice
Perennial plants are much more resistant to climatic shocks than the annual plants. They put down much deeper and thicker roots, and they got much stronger structures. So i think this is a big part of the future. I've eaten some of that rice. It's exactly the same as the short grite grain rice that ae by down the road. And they're also developing a whole load of other grain crops. An there's one called intermediate wheat grass, or kernsa am. The plant has had six harvests in a row which have produced those same high yields.
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