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"Rice grows mostly in flooded fields"
"The water blocks oxygen from penetrating the soil, creating ideal conditions for bacteria that emit methane. The longer the flooding lasts, the more those bacteria build up."
"Despite the potential advantages of improved water management, those opportunities will [be wasted] until govts shift incentives and support the work to get into the technical details place by place"
https://www.wri.org/insights/more-rice-less-methane
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