China's 'father of hybrid rice' Yuan Longping and his team have successfully grown rice in a desert in Dubai with an output of some 7,500 kg per hectare, completing the world's first successful ...

Climate change has made some soil in Bangladesh more salty, so many farmers have had to leave fields fallow. But what if there were rice varieties that could naturally tolerate the salty conditions?

This amount of azolla biomass can be doubled and tripled by growing a second or third layer after the first crop (layer) has been incorporated. The annual N production of azolla thus cultivated ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Mekong Delta – a major rice-producing region in southwest Vietnam. In Vietnam, rice has been a strategic crop for national […] ...

Here, the first image, from 28 October 2019, picks out changes in pink and red, the second from 21 November shows changes in green, and the third image, from 27 December, shows changes in blue.

The majority of the region's 250,000 acres of rice fields are fallow this year. A study by the University of California, Davis set the toll for the region's 2022 lost rice harvest at $1.3 billion ...

Through a 1,100 mile-long canal system, Burnside floods nearly 1,000 acres of rice fields, which are emerald green in June despite the drought. Like most farmers in the area, however, Burnside is ...

A green solution for salt stress in rice Bacteria from Pokkali rice fields that could help rice plants thrive in the salt-water conditions in the Kuttanad region identified.

With over three acres of rice fields to his name, Supon is wealthier then his peers who content themselves with cheaper brands of Smartphone that retail around $120. Each acre produces 8,000 ...

GREEN CROP: Farmers harvesting the rice grown as part of the pilot project for high-quality, ... (6.3-6.6 tonnes/ha compared to 5.7-6 tonnes/ha in control fields), and farmers' incomes rose by 20-25 ...