TY - BOOK ED - Asia Rice Foundation (Philippines) ED - Philippine Rice Research Institute. ED - SEAMEO Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture. TI - Annual Rice Forum 2009: Revisiting the organic fertilizer issue in rice SN - 9789719316343 (Paperback) AV - SB191.R5 A56 PY - 2010/// CY - Laguna, Philippines PB - Philippine Rice Research Institute, SEAMEO SEARCA KW - Rice KW - Fertilizers KW - Philippines KW - Congresses KW - Organic farming N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Organic materials have been used as fertilizers since the time man began to domesticate crops, not by choice, but because they are the ones available. In Greek mythology, King Augeas was said to have asked the strongman Hercules to clean his stable of 3,000 oxen. And so, Hercules diverted the River Alpheus through the stable and manure and dirt, an accumulation of 30 years, were deposited in the adjacent land where, subsequently, the crops grew luxuriantly UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy13pdf02/2012325363.html ER -