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DISCUSSION BY ATTENDEES 



Hitchcock: The estimates of the methane productivity of paddy fields by 

 Koyama cannot be trusted. His experiments were conducted in a closed chamber 

 with a nitrogen atmosphere, and he measured the total methane production at 

 the most productive period that would correspond to the period following the 



