Chhattisgarh has a lot of rice diversity, so deserves its own rice institute. Wait, deserves?
Height record broken
Jack and the Amaranthus stalk.
Life goes on
Well, I’m back in the office and eager to get back into the blogging groove, once I catch up with work stuff, which should be within the next month or two. It wasn’t the most stress-free of holidays, though I am oddly refreshed. I wont say much about what’s been happening in Kenya, apart from that it was both worse and not as bad as the punditry would have it. On the home front, my mother-in-law finished her “water project” up at the farm. The tank shown below is now up and delivering running water to the compound.
Second “Farmer First”
This totally passed me by. The Institute of Development Studies just hosted a workshop entitled ‘Farmer First Revisited‘ from 12-14 December 2007, “to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the original ‘Farmer First’ event.” That event (and the associated book) was quite a milestone, and the papers presented at this month’s reprise look worthy of their illustrious predecessors presented back in July 1987. The very Web 2.0 conference website includes a timeline and blog.
Defining basmati
So what is basmati anyway? Indian boffins all too available for comment.