Umm, the farmer claimed that the yield would now give him enough food to feed his family. Either he has a really big family or the per hectare yield was extrapolated. 365 days a year of back breaking work on 2 1/2 acres by an entire family yields enough food so that they don't starve to death? And there's nothing wrong with organic farming, so long as living among piles of drying excrement and dumping prodigious amounts of calcium silicate slag on the ground, as this family does is considered organic.
The real fact is that Indian rice yields are about 1/2 the world average, while US rice yields are almost twice the world average. Oh, and my family has enough to eat.
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… – grown an astonishing 22.4 tonnes of rice on one hectare of land. This was a world record and with rice the staple food of more than half the world's population of seven billion, big news.