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Dutch trial rice farming to save sinking peatlands
Original: Rice work: Dutch test new crop to save sinking peatlands
The Netherlands is testing rice cultivation as a new crop to help preserve its sinking peatlands. Drained peat soil used for conventional farming oxidises and causes land subsidence; growing rice in wet conditions could keep peat saturated and slow the sinking, while giving farmers a viable alternative crop. The experiment is drawing attention as a novel approach to a longstanding Dutch land-management problem.
Why now: It is an unusual climate adaptation trial in a country known for dairy on peat, and it offers a potential model for peatland loss elsewhere.
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