WorldPingItalian rice farmer beats heat with biodiversity haven
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Four hundred years after monks transformed a patch of marshlands in northwest Italy into rice fields, farmer Alice Cerutti has restored a third to their natural state, prioritizing biodiversity over crop yield.
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- Reported by Phys.org and published Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:03:36 UTC.
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