Terracing, which requires constant maintenance, allows water to flow continuously down through successive rice fields (see Build a Rice Paddy). Farmers usually plant rice seed in a seedbed ...

In a rice field of central China ... During the wildlife searches, they noticed some newts breeding in the water. Intrigued, researchers captured a few of these newts and, after taking a closer ...

Current practices are wasteful of increasingly scarce and costly resources such as water and fossil fuels. Heavily fertilized, continuously flooded rice fields produce greenhouse gases that contribute ...

It is flooded with water that must be kept at a constant ... One project that came up was rice field monitoring using wireless sensor networks and it caught the attention of some of the members ...

Before leaving, Bakhodir realized that his native Khorezm region would soon cease to be suitable for rice growing.

For decades, the number of salmon in the river has sharply dropped, but now scientists believe they just might have a ...

Nearly all of the 93,583 hectares of drought-affected rice fields across 17 provinces and the capital, have been irrigated ...

Yet uncertainties around crop markets, water and climate can prompt some growers to fallow rice fields or change their management practices. Will today’s rice acreage under current practices be ...