Rice Project
Troubled Terrain
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
The government refuses to kill the discredited million-hectare rice-growing project in Central Kalimantan. However, the peat swamps may hide other treasures.
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For those who really understand rice cultivation, the government's plan to continue a grandiose project designed to turn one million hectares of peat swamps in Central Kalimantan into the nation's rice bowl flies in the face of agricultural science, economics and common sense. However, for people like Sunaryo it is a matter of survival. Indeed, it is for people like Sunaryo that the peat swamp project won't lay down and die.
Two years ago, t
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