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mikrotext / Nikola Richter

mikrotext is a publisher for texts with attitude and for new narratives, founded in 2013 in Berlin by Nikola Richter The independent publishing house focusses on new literary texts that comment on contemporary questions and allow insights into tomorrow. The texts are inspired by discussions on social media platformes and reflect today’s global debates. All titles are published digital first. A selection is available in English. In 2020 and 2019, mikrotext was awarded the German Publisher Award by the Federal Ministry of Culture and Media.
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July 2016

Rice

by Su Tong

Rice is a collection of fictional works by Su Tong, which includes Rice, Three Lamps and Fish of the People. Rice, a tale of desire, agony, existence and destruction, is a novel Su Tong wrote in the early 1990s. It depicts the samsara-like life of a man who migrated to the city by train to run away from famine and who eventually returns to his hometown also by train. The wandering life in a strange place is the basic generalization of his life and his death on the way home marks the climax of the whole story. Rice is the most noteworthy one among the few novels Su Tong has written so far.

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Hybrid Rice Feeding the World

Little-Known Stories of Yuan Longping

by Mao Changxiang

Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, who had developed the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". This book records in a realistic and plain style some little-known stories of Yuan Longping in the past 30 years from the early 1980s, when China’s hybrid rice research became successful and began to be widely used in production, and gradually spread to the world and benefit people all over the globe.

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Agricultural science

August 2002

Rice Almanac

by G P Hettel, Jay L Maclean, D C Dawe, Bill Hardy

As a result of editions published in 1993 and 1997, the Rice Almanac has become a standard handbook that brings together general information about rice and data about rice production worldwide. The third edition has been fully updated and expanded to include more countries, and is the result of collaboration between the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United States.

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Agricultural science

July 1996

Rice Research in Asia

Progress and Priorities

by Edited by Robert E Evenson, R W Herdt, Mahabub Hossain

This work discusses the latest work in Rice Research in Asian countries and makes suggestions on future progression and rice research priorities.

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Agronomy & crop production

April 1997

Sustainability of Rice Farming

by Edited by D J Greenland

Rice has supported a greater number of people for a longer period of time than any other crop. Nearly half of the global population is dependent on rice as its major staple food. While Asia remains the main centre of production and consumption of rice, the importance of rice is increasing rapidly in Africa and Latin America, and exports of rice from the United States and Australia are of major importance to the world rice trade. This book explores the factors which have contributed to the sustainability of rice production over the eight or nine thousand years for which rice has been produced. Sustainability is defined as the maintenance or improvement of production levels and protection of natural resources, within the context of economic viability and social acceptability. The author covers a wide range of issues, including soil fertility, plant breeding, pest management, irrigation, land degradation and social and economic factors. Greatest emphasis is placed on the special features of wetland rice production, and the importance of the nutrient balance. It is also shown that without the Green Revolution there would have been a period of mass starvation in Asia, a problem which continues to threaten and which will be unavoidable unless the successes of the Green Revolution can be sustained. The book provides a unique review of the sustainability of the production of the world’s most important crop, and should be of interest to students, research workers and policy makers in agriculture, soil science, and agricultural economics and food policies, as well as all interested in development in the third world.

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December 2020

Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups·She: The Black Rice Festival

by Yan Xiangjun, Liao Zhenghua

This book mainly introduces the origin of the She ethnic group's Black Rice Festival. While areas of the She ethnic group suffered from pests, the land owners increased rents and fees. As a result, the She people were in shortage of food. Lan Tianfeng led people to the land owner's house to steal food. After being found out, Lan Tianfeng stepped forward to protect others and was imprisoned on March 3rd. There was no food in the prison for him. Later, some She people used black rice leaves to cook rice. The jailers did not dare to eat the black rice and passed the rice to Tianfeng. Over time, Lan Tianfeng slowly recovered. Three years later, again on March 3rd, Lan Tianfeng was rescued. In order for future generations to commemorate the feat of Lan Tianfeng and remember how hard to have rice, the Black Rice Festival is celebrated every year.

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Children's & YA

June 2016

The Moon: A Glutinous Rice Cake in the Sky

by Cai Gao

The Moon: a Glutinous Rice Cake in the Sky is a classic nursery rhyme of Cai Gao’s hometown — the Changsha city of China , until now it is still sung by children. This nursery rhyme compares the moon to a round-shaped glutinous rice cake, and then launches a series of interesting associations. If singing this in the dialect of Changsha, a kind of lingering charm would come out.

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Agriculture & related industries

February 1997

Asian Rice Bowls: The Returning Crisis?

by Prabhu L Pingali, Mahabub Hossain, Roberta V Gerpacio

Less than two decades ago, the world was focusing on the impending food crisis across Asia, which was given little hope of ever being able to meet its rapidly growing food demand. Since then, Asia has made a quantum leap in food production. Technological innovations and policies that promoted intensive rice production systems helped achieve this. The authors of this book argue that there is a growing sense of complacency about future food supplies in Asia and that such complacency is not warranted. While rice productivity may increase, this will be limited by a number of factors: withdrawal of land and labor from agriculture to other uses, increased competition for resources, and land degradation. It is unlikely to match the increase in demand for rice because of population growth. The book provides a thorough assessment of the opportunities for increasing land productivity, including crop diversification. It evaluates the successes and limitations of the Green Revolution for rice in Asia and projects economic and technological trends forward over the next three decades.

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Mycology, fungi (non-medical)

January 1989

Seed-borne Diseases of Rice

by P C Agarwal

paper on seed-borne diseases of rice

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September 2018

New technology of ecological cultivation in rice field

by Huang Huang, Wang Xiaoqing

The ecological cultivation of rice fields with multiple cropping system is the improvement and development of the classical farming mode of China "rice field fish cultivation". The new technologies of rice field ecological cultivation introduced in this book include rice oil fish ecological cultivation mode, rice oil turtle ecological cultivation mode, rice loach ecological cultivation mode, rice oil crab ecological cultivation mode, rice oil frog ecological cultivation mode, rice oil shrimp ecological cultivation mode , rice eel ecological cultivation model, rice duck ecological cultivation model. On the basis of the previous large-scale business model, two patent technologies of "ladder cultivation" and "wedge cultivation" have been ingeniously added, which have successfully solved the bottleneck problems of escaping, overwintering in summer, ensuring feed, no tillage cultivation, directional fertilization and water-saving irrigation in the cultivation process, and initially formed a technical system of "narrow ridge, multiple maturity, close planting and sparse cultivation", and achieved good economic results Economic, ecological and social benefits.

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June 2020

Family Farm Ecological Planting Series: Family Farm Ecological Planting Series: New Technology of Ecological Planting and Raising of Meat Duck Rice Field

by Fu Zhiqiang

This year, our country has promoted three-dimensional rice farming. Among them, raising ducks and fish in paddy fields is currently a project with great promotion. This book mainly introduces the common meat duck varieties in rice fields, meat duck production process, duck house construction requirements, meat duck feeding management, breeding duck feeding management, artificial hatching of meat duck breeding eggs, and the prevention and control of meat duck common diseases.

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June 2011

Der Duft des Sake

Roman

by Joyce Lebra, Ursula Gräfe

Japan im 19. Jahrhundert. Rie ist die Tochter eines angesehenen Sake-Brauers und einzige Erbin. Doch als Frau ist sie nicht dazu bestimmt, das Familienunternehmen zu leiten – allein die Nähe von Frauen, glaubt man, verdirbt den Sake. Statt dessen muß sie den Nichtsnutz Jihei heiraten, der zum Nachfolger ihres Vaters auserwählt worden ist. Dieser zeigt jedoch weder Fähigkeit noch Willen, diese Aufgabe zu erfüllen. Rie läßt sich nicht entmutigen: Mit Courage, großem Mut und leidenschaftlichem Willen kämpft sie dafür, die Brauerei Weißer Tiger, ihr familiäres Erbe, in ein florierendes Sake-Imperium zu verwandeln. Unverhofft trifft sie dabei auch ihre verloren geglaubte Jugendliebe wieder …

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Agriculture & related industries

October 2013

Realizing Africa's Rice Promise

by Edited by Marco C S Wopereis, David Johnson, Nourollah Ahmadi, Eric Tollens, Abdulai Jalloh

*Includes contributions from the key scientists working in the area *Provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research as well as making recommendations for how best to deal with future challenges *Has a wide and varied scope – covering policy, genetic diversity and improvement, sustainable productivity enhancement, innovations and value chains

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March 2007

Vittorio

Roman

by Rice, Anne

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January 2003

Pandora

Roman

by Rice, Anne

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February 2003

Armand der Vampir

Roman

by Rice, Anne

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November 2008

Der Kuss der Dämonin

Roman

by Rice, Anne

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November 2008

Der Duft der Unsterblichkeit

Roman

by Rice, Anne

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August 2002

Wo die Sehnsucht das Herz berührt

by Rice, Luanne

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July 2002

Wo Träume im Wind verwehen

by Rice, Luanne

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Little-Known Stories of Yuan Longping

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