On idle Paddies just dump great quantities of such things as straw, grass, chicken manure, garbage from your kitchen, and dregs and lees from starch and tofu, if you can get them free.
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
To say that "since there's too much rice you must till fewer Paddies" is nothing more than a kindergartner's idea for a solution.
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
And even if we converted all our rice Paddies to organic production, causing the yield to drop to one-third, there would be no shortage of rice even under present conditions if everyone ate uncooked brown rice.
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi