“They found that in the drained field, the release of GHG had dropped by 70%, and the farmer who owned the demonstration plot saw his crop yield in the drained field rise by more than 20%.”
Rice paddies put out 11% of the world’s methane. Draining the field and rewetting it only when hairline cracks show cut emissions 70% and raised yields more than 20%. One farmer went from 2 tons to 3.5. The main barrier to scaling it is a $33 weeding machine. The Green Revolution told these farmers to flood their fields, and it took them sixty years to get permission to stop.