{"id":597,"date":"2022-10-06T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/?p=597"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:59:14","slug":"tale-of-a-rice-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/06\/tale-of-a-rice-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"Tale of a Rice Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shubho Bijaya Dashami!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this festive season, we are sharing an interesting discussion on agriculture, with specific emphasis on rice cultivation. In this interview with The Wire, agri-ecologist Debal Deb shares his rare insights on genetic diversity of indigenous rice-varieties; their natural resilience &#8211; time-tested over centuries; how we almost lost them due to policy decisions (including the famed green revolution) designed to kill diversity; the very serious implications of these developments; and what he personally has done to turn the tide. The findings are backed by Deb&#8217;s field-research, and rooted firmly at the intersection of agricultural and ecological science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Debal Deb, India&#039;s &#039;Rice Warrior&#039;, on Climate-resilient Agriculture | The Wire Science\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dcI_L9stV6k?start=10&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shubho Bijaya Dashami! In this festive season, we are sharing an interesting discussion on agriculture, with specific emphasis on rice cultivation. In this interview with The Wire, agri-ecologist Debal Deb shares his rare insights on genetic diversity of indigenous rice-varieties; their natural resilience &#8211; time-tested over centuries; how we almost lost them due to policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahalanobisclub.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}