El cultivo de arroz en los Estados Unidos hoy en día está asociado principalmente con Arkansas o California e, históricamente, con Lowcountry y el delta del Mississippi. Pero este verano, Cornell Cooperative Extension lanzó lo que espera sea un proyecto a largo plazo para desarrollar un sistema regional de cultivo de arroz […]
(By Liz Susan Karp/Planeta Arroz) Rice cultivation in the U.S. today is primarily associated with Arkansas or California and, historically, with the Lowcountry and the Mississippi Delta. But this summer, Cornell Cooperative Extension launched what it hopes will be a long-term project to develop a regional rice farming system in the Northeast. “We wanted to identify potential flood-tolerant crops for our farmers,” said Cornell professor Jenny Kao-Kniffin, who oversees the project. In the last decade, intense precipitation events have caused disastrous consequences for farmers across the region. Rice is flood tolerant but does not require flood conditions and the grain is as profitable on the East Coast as other high-value crops that do not fare as well in extreme rainfall. The Cornell initiative brings agronomy, education and infrastructure for scalability under one umbrella to support small producers – joining a small group of farmers and academics in the region who are studying ...
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