Practical rice farming methods to boost yield, strengthen crops, and use water and nutrients efficiently for healthier, more ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Thousands of farmers and their families across Nepal celebrated an annual paddy festival by planting rice, splashing in the muddy fields and enjoying a special feast. The ...

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered ...

ZAMA, JAPAN – American military community members experienced an integral part of Japanese (agri)culture by joining a rice-planting event June 1 in a locally owned rice field near the U.S. Army’s Camp ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. To fight food insecurity and climate change, Senegal is increasingly employing a relatively new strategy for growing rice, known as the “system of ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as important as the crop itself. A new study reveals that the specific genetic ...

Scientists tested rice under record heatwaves and found that hotter soils by themselves did not cause dangerous spikes in arsenic or metals.