Watch as the rice passes through various stages of production, starting from the harvested paddy fields and moving through cutting-edge machinery that refines it into its final form. From the ...

Regardless of the numbers, the pressure of negotiating with the U.S. is putting a spotlight on an ongoing rice crisis in ...

In Latin America it grows as a dry-land crop, in Southeast Asia as a paddy ... Rice-growing methods are almost as varied as the grain's geographical habitats. In the United States, farmers use ...

Rice is cultivated all over the world in fields known as rice paddies and it is one of the most maintenance intensive crops to grow. The rice paddy itself requires a large part of that maintenance.

Previous research had suggested that paddy-field soil might contain nitrogen-fixing microbes that can provide rice plants with additional nutrients to support their growth, Shida says.

OSHU, Iwate Prefecture—Residents here created a field of dreams for hometown hero Shohei Ohtani. A 1,000-square-meter rice paddy field shows Ohtani wearing Japan’s national team uniform ...

But there’s a catch. Requiring waterlogged paddy fields to grow, rice is an extraordinarily thirsty crop. With the advance of climate change, extreme events such as droughts and flooding are ...