Miracle grow: Indian farmers smash crop yield records without GMOs

Grist: What if the agricultural revolution has already happened and we didn't realize it? Essentially, that's the idea in this report from the Guardian about a group of poverty-stricken Indian rice and potato farmers who harvested confirmed world-record yields of rice and potatoes. Best of all: They did it completely sans-GMOs or even chemicals of any kind. [Sumant] Kumar, a shy young farmer in Nalanda district of India`s poorest state Bihar, had - using only farmyard manure and without any herbicides...

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