DWIAS Anandita relaxed with his three children at his home in Wido Martani, Yogyakarta. The rain that poured over Yogyakarta all last week forced him to delay his scheduled plan to dry out his harvest of black rice. He could only dry his grains at the entrance of his warehouse. "I can't dry it," said the owner of Pondok Alam, an online store.

Dwias, 37, is one of the few farmers now growing organic black rice. Initially, farming black rice was someth