Rt Vol. 11, No. 3 Cosmic Rice

Cosmic rice Long ago, farmers turned to the stars to determine when to plant and harvest rice by V. Sankaran Nair and Alaric Francis Santiaguel I n southern Travancore, Kerala State in India, many ancestral homes are located close to large stretches of erstwhile paddy fields. Families living in these homes used to cultivate rice. Today, the paddy fields are gone. Massive fields in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, have been slowly but steadily turned into sprawling estates, to meet

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