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"These giant worms are trouble," said Jimmy Cabbigat, a 61-year-old Ifugao farmer.

Those would be the "slithering, silent invasion of worms -- up to 2 feet long and as thick as thumbs -- boring into the rice terraces in this misty, mountainous area of the northern Philippines for 40 years."

It seems rising rice prices might provide the impetus to do something about it. Supply and demand writ large.

Posted by jk at May 5, 2008 4:42 PM