Same Rice Seed, 180–240 Grains vs 80–140: Crop Results

What does a crop fed on time, with fewer seeds and no chemicals, give back?

Cho comments from his chair and with the pointer while the interpreter runs his slide deck of paired photos: rice at harvest, two panicles from the same seed, cooked rice in jars, then pepper, beans, broccoli, a man holding a huge cauliflower, corn, Indonesian rice and strawberries. The board behind lists the four handouts. Strawberries are handed round at the end.

• Feeding at each 'morning sickness' (results slides) — Cho: chili pepper was fed 'before pregnancy'; the interpreter named water-soluble calcium phosphate, Structure (WCP), before flowering. Beans, broccoli and strawberries go through morning sickness five times and are fed at each. No dilutions spoken; the changeover column of the handout gives WCP 1:1,000 with OHN 1:1,000 and the rest.

1. At harvest, conventional rice has dead, dry leaves, like orphanage children; natural-farming rice is raised by both parents

   Harvest slide.

   ▶ 2:21:12 From the slides

2. Same seed: natural farming 180–240 grains a panicle, conventional 80–140

   Slide of two panicles. The interpreter first guessed 200–260, then gave Cho's 180–240.

   ▶ 2:25:01 From the slides

3. Conventional rice was planted 8–12 a hill, natural farming 2–3

   The same pair of plantings shown before the break; there Cho said 8 to 12 seeds a hill, here only 'planted 8 to 12'.

   ▶ 2:25:34 As spoken

4. Greedy conventional farming gives less harvest and costs more; natural farming costs less, takes less work and yields more

   Cho frames it with James 1:15: desire conceives sin, and sin brings death.

   ▶ 2:26:30 As spoken

5. Natural farming yields about 30% more than conventional

   The interpreter added a soybean trial at 'exactly 30%', not in Cho's captured Korean.

   ▶ 2:27:09 As spoken

6. Natural-farming rice sells for 50% more than conventional

   Interpreter: with lower costs, 'about 80%' more profit.

   ▶ 2:27:36 As spoken

7. A Korean grape farmer kept about $30,000 income but profit rose from $3,000–5,000 to over $25,000 after switching

   The interpreter's own story ('let's say $30,000'); no Korean original.

   ▶ 2:28:39 As spoken

8. Cooked rice left out: conventional rotted, natural-farming rice grew microbes and mushrooms

   Slide of cooked rice; the test was done by Amore, Korea's largest cosmetics company.

   ▶ 2:30:00 From the slides

9. Amore makes cosmetics with natural-farming rice and contracted a natural-farming melon grower for the fragrance

   ▶ 2:31:26 As spoken

10. Cho smelled agrochemicals on the contract melon farm and told Amore not to take the melons

    The husband had used them, the wife hadn't; they couldn't sell the melons.

    ▶ 2:32:23 As spoken

11. In Ehime, Japan's only chemical-free lemon grower sells leaves to Shiseido at $1 a leaf

    Shiseido harvests the leaves itself and blocks other companies from buying.

    ▶ 2:34:53 As spoken

12. Chili pepper fed before 'pregnancy' (before flowering) set heavy fruit

    Interpreter: water-soluble calcium phosphate before flowering.

    ▶ 2:36:58 From the slides

13. Beans go through morning sickness five times; each time fed, pods set

    Cho: two bean seeds were planted; the interpreter said one.

    ▶ 2:37:55 From the slides

14. Broccoli: 2–3 per plant normally in Korea or Japan; 12–15 when fed at each of its five morning sicknesses

    The interpreter said 1–3 and 10–15.

    ▶ 2:38:33 As spoken

15. Natural-farming cauliflower about 8 kg against about 500 g normal

    Interpreter's figures on a slide of a man holding a huge cauliflower; a Tokyo hotel ordered it.

    ▶ 2:39:58 From the slides

16. Corn: 2–3 ears a stalk normally, 13–15 with natural farming

    The interpreter said 10–15.

    ▶ 2:41:24 As spoken

17. In Indonesia, the natural-farming rice panicle grows much longer

    Cho's Korean over this slide is unreadable.

    ▶ 2:42:29 From the slides

18. Strawberries also go through morning sickness five times; Hawaiʻi's strawberries are 'leather'

    Interpreter: one sells for $2.50 (per berry or per pack not clear).

    ▶ 2:42:56 As spoken