Global rice production nearly doubled over 50 years as farmers adapted to climate pressures with irrigation, fertilizer, and ...

Global rice production nearly doubled between the 1960s and the 2010s, despite the negative impacts of climate change, ...

A new study offers a promising solution to one of agriculture’s toughest challenges: how to grow more food while using less water and reducing environmental harm. Researchers have demonstrated that ...

Traditionally thought of as a warm climate crop, some varieties of rice can also thrive in temperate regions, including the northeastern U.S. One rice farm in Vermont has successfully implemented the ...

Mr Kasno, 55, was only a child when he started working in his parents' paddy fields in the Grobogan area in Central Java, in Indonesia. That means he's had a front-row seat to observe how rice ...

In the decades following the U.S. war in Vietnam, the Vietnamese government championed intensive farming methods that boosted rice harvests and turned the country into an export powerhouse. While much ...

By Edward DankwahAccra, June 16, GNA- The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has called on the Government to immediately implement the proposed rice import quota policy to help address the ...

Rice is a staple for billions but growing it contributes to climate change, as flooded paddy fields release large amounts of methane – a potent greenhouse gas.

Rice is the staple crop of more than half of the world’s population. Demand is growing with the rising population in South and Southeast Asia. However, a significant portion of rice farming still ...

In a mountain village in south-west China, the local people are playing a guessing game. A new climate-friendly way of growing rice is being trialed here that will reduce methane emissions. So, what’s ...