A communique sent to all divisional directors and deputy directors of agriculture (extension) says early paddy sowing is caused by some farmers’ attempts to get two rice crops in a season and ...

Akebono, which means dawn in Japanese ... that organic farmers release into rice paddies to consume weeds. It can potentially remove weeds from a paddy in two or three hours — making a big ...

One alternative is the production of rice in flooded, terraced fields (montane paddy). This option is not new; however, farmers are developing these montane paddy fields much more now than in the past ...