Shira tells us about her day playing in rice paddies, and why growing rice sustainably is good for the planet.

Parks, roofs and riverbanks mimicking the long-used agricultural form are helping Asian cities absorb, hold and purify ...

Mangaluru: A govt lower primary school in Sullia taluk’s Tanteppadi has launched a unique project to educate students about ...

A push for direct-seeded rice and zero-tillage wheat, using a new non-GM herbicide-tolerance technology, has the potential to ...

The Agricultural Ministry is seeking to expand the rice paddy by 1.78 million hectares across the archipelago this year.

Nearly 1 million acres of monsoon paddy fields in Myanmar were reportedly affected by floods this year. Some of the paddy fields need to be recultivated, while others, once the water recedes, will not ...

Experts say SRBSDV is transmitted by white-backed plant hopper (WBPH), a small insect, in a persistent circulative and ...

Japan is running out of rice. Stocks have fallen to their lowest levels in decades, prompting fears that emergency reserves ...

The machines which are rented to our members have greatly increased productivity. It takes one whole day to plough a one-hectare field by hand with a water buffalo, but just one hour using a rotavator ...

India’s farmers expanded planted areas for rice and pulses, helped by higher-than-average rains during the first half of the four-month monsoon season. Rice has been planted on about 27.7 million ...

The area under crop cultivation is 89.4% of the normal sown acreage and comes after better monsoon rains during the past ...

YANGON, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 1 million acres of monsoon paddy fields in Myanmar were affected by floods this year, the official daily The Mirror reported on Friday. Some of the paddy fields need ...