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[Ramki Bondada <bondada@hotmail.com>]

I am exploring to use Biogas water pumping system for my farm irrigation.
Any leads, ideas, contacts with in India are highly appreciated....
 
Ramki

 

> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:38:05 -0600
> From: farmer1@gasperfarm.com
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] A school near a terraced rice field in Vietnam 
> [2000x1390] photo by sarawut Intarob (ppcdn.500px.org)
> 
> What kind of soil is underneath those fields? Here in America we'd consider 
> that too steep to plant or do much anything with besides maybe cattle or 
> scrub timber. But then you can't run a combine with a 30' header across it 
> and our soils of such geography tend to have stone a few inches down. But I 
> wonder if human scale agriculture could radically expend food production 
> here via methods like that.
> 
> Pete
> 
> On 01/06/2014 03:19 AM, Lawrence London wrote:
> > Here's permaculture for you:
> >
> > A school near a terraced rice field in Vietnam [2000x1390] photo by 
> > sarawut
> > Intarob (ppcdn.500px.org)
> >
> > http://ppcdn.500px.org/56447380/be22e6dc9524c2d254b5c124a78f01ed444ddf3c/2048.jpg
> >
> > When you see something like this, probably a thousand or more years old, 
> > it
> > makes you wonder about those on the perpetual whine trip about what is or
> > isn't
> > PC because it isn't natural. Those terraces are certainly man made ecology
> > enhancing, food producing, habitat sustainers. Sepp Holzer's work is of
> > this quality.
> >
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