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"For centuries, rice farmers on the island of Bali have taken great care not to offend Dewi Danu, the water goddess who dwells in the crater lake near the peak of Batur volcano. Toward the end of each rainy season, the farmers send representatives to Ulun Danu Batur, the temple at the top of the mountain, to offer ducks, pigs, coins and coconuts in thanks for the water that sustains their terraced fields. Outsiders have long considered the rituals of Agama Tirtha, "the religion of holy water" an interesting but impractical way to grow crops. Development companies have spent millions trying to improve on the ancient system. With the help of an ingenious computer program, anthropologist Steve Lansing and ecologist James Kremer have shown that the Balinese rice growers have been practicing state-of-the-art resource management. Besides placating the goddess, it turns out, the island's ancient rituals serve to coordinate the irrigation and planting schedules of hundreds of scattered villages. And as a new computer model makes clear, the result is one of the most stable and efficient farming systems on the planet. Andre Singer and Steve Lansing have made an innovative film about the water temples, the dams and the development of the computer program at the University of Southern California. In the film we see the government officials call upon the priests and recognize the importance of their role. We also see the power play that results, as each group wants to control the use of the computer."
"An anthropologist Steve Lansing conducted his field work in Bali, and he discovered that hundreds of village -size farming cooperatives, or subaks, were linked through a network of temples extending from the top of the volcano to the seacoast. If a subak needed a new source of water or wanted to divert water from the main supply, it had to appeal to the high priest, Jero Gde, who juggled the planting schedules of the villages. The effect of this scheduling benefited water conservation, soil preservation and pest control."@en
"For centuries, rice farmers on the island of Bali have taken great care not to offend Dewi Danu, the water goddess who dwells in the crater lake near the peak of Batur volcano. Toward the end of each rainy season, the farmers send representatives to Ulun Danu Batur, the temple at the top of the mountain, to offer ducks, pigs, coins and coconuts in thanks for the water that sustains their terraced fields."@en
"Examines the centuries old practice of Agama Thirta, a Balinese water ritual in honor of the goddess Dewi Danu. The ritual produces better irrigation of rice crops than any other system yet devised, including those by the Indonesian government, the Asian Development Bank, and computer programmers from the University of Southern California."@en
"A biologist and an anthropologist look at a Bali irrigation system and propose a computer model to explore the effect of changes in the traditional system."
"A biologist and an anthropologist look at a Bali irrigation system and propose a computer model to explore the effect of changes in the traditional system."@en
"Examines centuries-old traditions of rice farming on Bali in which water is considered a gift from a goddess and is controlled by priests. The importance of this religious system of irrigation came to light only after newly introduced methods of rice farming were introduced a result of the green revolution and production decreased while pests multiplied. A computer modeling system was developed which confirmed the wisdom of the old traditions."
"Examines centuries-old traditions of rice farming on Bali in which water is considered a gift from a goddess and is controlled by priests. The importance of this religious system of irrigation came to light only after newly introduced methods of rice farming were introduced as a result of the green revolution and production decreased while pests multiplied. A computer modeling system was developed which confirmed the wisdom of the old traditions."
"Examines centuries-old traditions of rice farming on Bali in which water is considered a gift from a goddess and is controlled by priests. The importance of this religious system of irrigation came to light only after newly introduced methods of rice farming were introduced as a result of the green revolution and production decreased while pests multiplied. A computer modeling system was developed which confirmed the wisdom of the old traditions."@en
"Describes the rice growing and irrigation systems used in Bali. The Balinese pray to the water goddess with the temple priests. The Rice Research Institute, has devised a computer program to plan the irrigation system, for the use of the Balinese."