This breed needs more fertilizers and pesticides, the article says it.
That's the problem.
Fertilizers are like drugs for the soil. Once, the soil starts using the fertilizers, it needs more and more of it every harvest. The soil turns really solid like rock. It needs far more water to grow, and heavy machinery to till it. Essentially, you are replacing the all natural process with an all clinical process. The argument is similar to saying, why don't we all check into hospitals? We will all stay healthier there.
The pesticides can't stay away from the rice. It climbs into the stem and into the rice grain.

Now, about the real water consumed : The fertilizers consume a huge amount of water to produce. So do the pesticides. So, if you added the 'hidden water' consumed in production of fertilizers, you will realize that you have just used up water at a different place, that's all.

My BITX has been in open source for more than ten years now. (www.phonestack.com/farhan/bitx.html). It has an active community that mods it, a large number of websites dedicated to it as well. It goes exactly in the opposite direction from the proposed radio. It uses very generic electronic components, it can be put together for less than 10 dollars without requiring anything beyond a soldering iron.
Open source hardware cannot mean hard to get chips, multi-layer boards and computer/phone that costs a few hundred dollars. And even after all that, the performance of this proposed rig is questionable. It has almost no strength on the front-end, the transmission is without the mandatory filters needed for the -50dbc limit on spurious emissions as per the FCC norms. The chips are not available on ebay.

The scientists involved in the launch are praying to many gods to make the launch a success. Why am I feeling assured about the success now? http://www.financialexpress.com/news/indias-mars-mission-the-countdown-begins-for-isros-voyage-to-the-red-planet/1178892

Can't the slashdot editors be more active with their copy? Nothing goes faster than light. period.

Marketing is not the same thing as sales. Marketing creates the context for sale to happen. You are, probably, already late for any marketing consultation, as marketing begins with 'what can we sell?' and you already have a product. Which means, that you have already thought of who the customers are, what they want, how the product will be distributed. Inherent in those decisions are also things like what the user will perceive the product as, how a usage of the product will spread the buzz to other users, etc.
So, if you think hard about it, it is impossible that you didn't have a plan for marketing the product. You need to sit down with someone and just talk about the product until you can verbalize the plan that is already in your head. For that, I would suggest asking your brightest friend to give you an hour over coffee (avoid beer) and then repeat this with two other friends. At the end of the exercise, write down all that you jotted on a piece of paper. Use a whiteboard while talking. Think in terms of users, costs, revenues and margins. At the end of the day, the product must financially survive.

'most people are idiots', 'we have to protect the innocent even if it means taking away their freedom', 'it is for your own good', 'let us decide what's good for you', blah blah blah.
can i, as a citizen of the free world, have the choice to decide what is good for me and what is not? if i can vote, i guess i am sensible enough to choose an utrusted app or decline it. how can you force me to use a phone that i own in the ways that YOU want me to?
this is wrong a some many levels! Next, you will ban muslims from using it i guess?