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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Sitting in the middle of the country, the Delta has plenty of water and great logistics as well as rich soil. Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. But this farm is different: It produces rice seeds.

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