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With shorter crop cycles and export rewards, short-duration basmati varieties are changing India’s rice landscape and could ...
Emmanuel Narh-Zaidor, a 31-year-old from southeastern Ghana, watched as farmers prepared the soil for the upcoming planting ...
Increasing salinity is slowly and steadily swallowing traditional rice paddies along the island's coastline ... Here, just a ...
“Look at Japan, tariffing rice 700%,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing in March.
This can be accredited to over-irrigation of paddy fields, over-application of fertilizers, and paddy residue burning. This acts as a reminder for Indian agriculture to rethink its agricultural ...
Watch as the rice passes through various stages of production, starting from the harvested paddy fields and moving through cutting-edge machinery that refines it into its final form. From the ...
But nature had other plans. Yesterday afternoon, a nor'wester accompanied by strong winds and hail storms swept over Jashore, destroying 5,011 hectares of Boro paddy fields, which were then submerged ...
A method called direct seeded rice (DSR) moves away from the traditional method of rice production – flooding fields and then transplanting seedlings into the water – and instead sews the ...
Malaysia will be holding its very first paddy field festival at Terminal Sekinchan in the scenic town of Sekinchan, Sabak Bernam district, just north-west of Selangor, from April 26 to April 27. The ...
Before they reach several feet tall and turn golden brown, the grassy plants soak in muddy, waterlogged fields for months ... that multiply under warming temperatures. When soil in a rice paddy is ...
“For now, we’re just trying to make due and salvage what crop we can, salvage the field prep we’ve done and try to get a crop in as quick as possible.” Rutledge says several hundred acres of rice are ...