If performed correctly, the practice of planting rice by broadcasting rice seeds directly into unflooded soil offers...
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Many people ask the question, “How much water does it take to produce 1 kg of rice?”...
SRI LANKAN Farm workers prepare to plant rice on a farm in Bathalagoda. The term “serendipity” was coined...
Many of Thailand’s 3.7 million rice farmers are unhappy. As the producers of the world’s biggest rice...
Yuko Kimura, a chef at Fukusoen, a traditional noodle restaurant in Tsuruoka City in Yamagata Prefecture, is...
Geographically, Ethiopia’s vast land area—1.12 million square kilometers—is defined by the Great Rift Valley system, which cuts...
The largest expense for rice farming after labor is typically the purchase of fertilizers. Fertilizer prices have...
The publication in 2005 of the rice genome—the sum total of genetic information in the rice plant,...
It’s easy to think of rice as a commodity that sells itself. Demand is growing faster than...
“Farmers are getting older and older. When they are gone, who will produce the food? Few farmers...
