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We Asians can't survive without rice 3times a day, we are thought at a young age that to never spoil just a single leftover rice grain, for it is the blood, sweat, tears of a farmer, quoted by my great-grandparents... planting rice is difficult, back-breaking and labor-intensive, in my village farmers needs to borrow money just to plant rice and if the harvest season failed due to pest or drought, they are all decimated.. that's why I KUDOS to those rice farmers...

My grandma too is a rice farmer and she uses the dry method for most of the season.

Thank you Nazirak for taking the time for doing the natures way of growing rice , and helping this planet...I will support your product...

Thanks Nicole for making this video, as a little kid growing up in India back in the 80's and 90's I used to see the immense rice fields flooded with water, and I never knew why it was like that until today, we just took it for granted that it is what it is and sadly no one realizes the impact it has, I still remember when we used to go for vacation to our ancestral places where rice was harvested in the villages, the day of the harvest was so much fun in the sense that I used to climb up on the hand cut plants being hauled in bullock carts and then beaten by hand to separate the rice seeds to boiling them in vast mounds to make it ready :) I probably can still smell it with my eyes closed, 30 years on , here in NJ looking at this video it made me so nostalgic, thanks again for the video !!

I love your videos. Personal story for every video and a clear history of the item being described. Thanks for these videos.

Yesss another how does it grow video! Welcome back :)

I LOVED 😍 this episode & can't wait for part 2!

This is fantastic, waiting on part 2

This is very interesting. Looking forward to part two

Rice is my daily food , greeting from INDONESIA 🇲🇨🇲🇨

- wow this video is deep. I love to learn new things. Thanks again for another amazing video !! Xoxo greatly appreciate

This episode was definitely worth waiting for. It has a slightly different feel about it than previous episodes because of the history bytes. And for me, the most interesting part was growing the rice on unused portions of people's properties. You don't often see a beautiful home on a hill with a well manicured lawn terminated by a small monoculture farm plot. Looking forward to part two.

Great work and huge Amount of effort!

Amazing video! Thank you!

Thank you for bringing back how does it grow❤

You never fail!!!!! Amazing episode!

Worth the wait.

I just learned something! Thank you!

Oooo yay!!! I was waiting for another episode

Awesome as always Nicole!

Fascinating and brilliant! I'd expect nothing less. Once again a masterpiece HDIG!! 💯❤️

I love your channel and videos Nicole! Extremely informative. I was fascinated to see that most Rice doesn't need to be flooded with water (like you see overseas). I guess the original native rices grew near swamps and other waterways. Where is part 2? More videos please 🙏

It makes me happy when I see a local farm on the food package’s label. For example, my arugula is grown just 80 miles west of home.

I am from punjab, India. Our state is the largest producer of paddy in the country but we have to go against the nature and draw out water for paddy in summers which is causing the water table of punjab to drop down at a very fast pace. Hope, there is some solution to the problem...

yes I started growing rice in my garden 4 years ago and grows perfectly without being flooded.

I've eagerly waited for rice history for so long!

Brilliant video. Thank you

Great video. Thank you.

Thank you for this eye opener

wow, this was so informative, Nicole - thanks!!! 💖

Thank you for this, & happy to find out about Curiousity! Subscribing now!

Looks like it’s time for a change in rice growing techniques 🌎🌸 we need more people to care like this super man 🌻

Great video, and informative.

He is my neighbor and is an inspiration to our community. Somehow this channel showed up on my recommendations and seeing his image drew my interest to click the video. A do it yourself minded brother! Thanks for sharing.

Good thing I stumbled on to your channel, Hello from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Very interesting. Great Video!!

Great video!

- YAYY A NEW VIDEO!! Thanks for another awesome video 📹

I love your work!

Very informative video thank you for this insight!

Very Informative

Merry Christmas Nicole and Family 🤗😘

This is one of my favorite KZfaq channels, and this video is another reason why.

Excellent Nicole Keep up the good work

Another masterpiece! Thank you

I appreciate your HDIG series! I especially appreciate your meticulous research. I'm a science teacher, so hopefully, you will take this point in the spirit it is given, with the intent of fact dissemination. The term "chemical-free" should not be used because everything, except the vacuum of space, is a chemical, including you and me! (we're basically a sac of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen slung over a calcium-phosphorus enriched frame). A better term would be synthetic chemical-free, referring to man-made chemicals, such as pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer, or growth hormones. Keep up the good work!

Nice video!

You are back......❤️

Yaaaaaas Sis! This iz EVERYTHING

Hi Nicole, Great video! Thanks for sharing very interesting 🤔

Its finally here...... ahhhhhhhh amazing.....thank you

🙋🇸🇬 Singapore fan Rice is our life , Thanks for sharing this💖 wonderful video with the great farmer 👍👍

Nice report on SRI and dry grown rice, hope you cover colored varieties of rice as they should have more antioxidants. Hope you address the Arsenic bioaccumulation due to former biocide use un part 2.

This was very informative. Thanks for sharing! I've loved these episodes for years. I am a fan of sustainability and being environmentally-friendly. At the same time, it's important to recognize some modern inventions/renovations of how processes are performed (e.g. growing and harvesting crops) helped get food to much more people in less time and with less energy input. It's not all bad to have industrialized systems. I appreciate us getting back to nature (I love nature myself.), but I'm not sure most people want to spend the time and energy it takes to do what it takes to grow your own food, especially when you are going back to methods such as harvesting early so the birds won't eat your entire yield. Just throwing that out there. Not to mention, before rice, it's cows that's produce the most methane. So, we can talk about rice and improving its environmental footprint. However, just by reducing our meat intake, we are making a larger difference than by making large investments to alter the rice industry.

Very nice to see new video ....love to see you

It is very nice to see another informative video from Nicole. Keep up the good work. Feriedoun London

Amazing Nicole as always, adore you so much, you are the best, a lot of greetings from Serbia !

I just bought a 3kg bag of organic brown rice from Yamagata prefecture. I can't wait to eat it tomorrow!

Hmm, I thought we were going to have a video on Rice - How does it grow?

Episode I didn't know I needed. Thanks TRUE FOOD TV! Still in my wishlist are tea and coffee. 😁

I like this series. But one thing i noticed; you really love your slow-mo shots.

Wow, what a video! This man and the host are legends!

Good to see you're back in business! Louisiana generates a large quantity of rice. SC has some. But this is Louisiana😉😉😉😉, which she has sugarcane, Rustin peaches, Saline watermelons.

I really enjoyed this episode, as I'm very interested in growing upland rice in my garden, despite minimal success at that so far. I'll be trying again this year. I was surprised and a little disappointed there was no mention of "The One-Straw Revolution" or anything about Masanobu Fukuoka at all. That's another great story about a much earlier realization that there was a better way than flooded paddy rice farming, from the early 1900's. I learned a lot and really enjoyed the historical research I did related to Fukuoka.

Good video, keep going please. You are doing great!

love it.

I thought you stopped making videos! I was subbed but didn't have the bell 🔔 on. Ugh. Anyway. Happy new year. Thanks for such wonderful video production (and content). Always your fan. ✌️ 💙

what a great episode. it's so nice to see this kind of agriculture and your enthusiasm for it. thanks for bringing it to us.

I guess you can say that Nazirak has... RICED to the challenge!

we need to revolutionize the rice production process again.

awesome vid.

Omg… never knew you gonna do it on rice one day !

I'm sorry, but I am very disappointed at this one for not giving the complete picture about low land rice, because they are carbon sinks. You skipped how wetlands with the same anaerobic process becomes the biggest and the most efficient natural carbon sequestration sinks. Not all paddy is environmentally destructive. There are both Wetland varieties/ low land varieties of rice and dryland varieties of rice. It is only destructive when lowland varieties are grown in flooded terraces in highlands, which doesn't naturally have Wetland conditions. Infact it is ideal for low lying land which are below sea level and are naturally flooded constantly. Also the methane produced from water logging is not released into the atmosphere. Instead low land rice paddies does the same and sequester carbon within the soil as methane. That is how of improving soil health by increase the organic matter makes it a carbon sink. Low land paddy fields are carbon sinks, and they are protected by the same environmental laws that protect mangroves for the same reason. It is actually illegal to level a lowland paddy field and use it for anything else. You have a huge audience and if this half knowledge catch fire and all low land paddy cultivation gets miscategorizedand wrongfully villified to be the same the flooded steppe paddies in highland, all those farmers of low land paddies who do an important job of preserving carbon sinks, would lose their business as well. You can do a better job at promoting American agriculture, without making such a costly mistake for environment P.S. If my comment catches anybody's attention, please google 'lowland paddy fiels and carbon sequestration'

Your videos are informative and fascinating. That being said, 10 year old Monty Python fan me laughed when you said "huge tracts of land".

Oh...I thought the flooding of rice fields was damaging because it diverged so much water from watersheds/other aquatic ecosystems and habitats. That's interesting, didn't know the process of rice farming produced so much methane gas

Your channel is quite good. I will have to try that Curiosity Stream too...many of us are documentary junkies!

I am waiting in earnest for Part 2. When would be the release date? Nasirahk Amen's method of rice farming uses a fraction of rice seed, and because it does not flood the paddies, flame weeding can be used requiring a lot less labor.

Looking for part 2.

I am addicted to this channel❤️

One of the benefits to growing in this manner is all that shade produced by the rice will help keep water in which may require less. That's probably why he can get away with just drip irrigating. I didn't know rice couldn't be grown without a patty. Pretty cool, now I want to try it myself.

“Physician” 😂

6+months later and still not seeing part 2. Any idea when that will be coming out?

For people saying that the way you harvest the rice, depends say on the person vs. the rice is wrong..... The "Dry" method vs "Wet" method depends on the species of rice. Upland vs Lowland Species, it's not just one species of "Domestic Rice" , it's several, based on a few origin locations in the world. Older species of Long Grain Rice, such as "Carolina Gold" are def better off in a "Wet" method. And in most Asian Countries, that use flooding there is a symbiotic relationship with "Mosquito Fern" or Azolla Plant. This plant, reduces CO2 and other gasses in the atmosphere..it works sort of like legumes. Look up the "Azolla Event", these plants helped cause the Ice Age. I don't understand, I love this channel it usually backs up and confirms, older more sustainable methods of Agriculture....such as the various kinds of grains, and the bread they make. I say this because in most of the Asian Countries, these farmers don't worry about the methane, because the Azolla and the relationship they have in paddies with the rice. Not to mention that rice paddies in China have been around so long, they are there own ecosystems, with species now, that only exist in the flooded paddies now.

This is a great man God bless him and his family for he is laying down the prosperity for them, leading by example and culture.

I use to live in my grandpa’s farm. Rice is amazing! I remember trying to catch for frogs around the rice fields. 🐸 thank you!

Epic!

finally another how does it grow !

I've always wondered how rice grows.. Now I know ✅

Awesome. Say it again brother 🙌 🙌❤💯

There are some pocket of community in my country/nation that do dry land method, but of course in very very very small quantity.

Great episode. .. could you tell me where to buy the harvester and seed please (uk not USA) thanks

This is awesomeness

I lot of respect you and your channel from INDIA......

Philippines needs to learn this.

Rice is our main staple in Vietnam. Greetings from Vietnam guys

This was awesome. I instantly liked the bearded fellow (no idea how to spell his name) but his voice definitely didn’t sound like I thought it would 😂

I'd love to see your channel get real captions! It would really add to the quality of your videos from the perspective of people who are deaf and hard of hearing (like me). I'll probably watch this eventually (and enjoy it) but if it had captions I'd be watching it right now.

Good sharing my friend 😊

Please make a video on Arugula.