The answer it found in the end was a result of the farming practices they followed ... Subsistence agriculture, involving rice, has always required much more labour than a family can provide ...

Seito Saibara was engaged by the city of Houston to evaluate the rice industry in Texas. Japanese farmers had been invited to ...

"The ducks also step on the rice stubble to flatten the ground and that makes it easier to plow." This integrated farming system is traditional here in Thailand and other Asian countries.