Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it underpins daily meals for billions of people. But the same flooded soils that ...

Through a partnership with Regrow Ag, precision-agriculture business Netafim is helping rice farmers worldwide to seamlessly adopt climate-smart farming practices. Netafim — a precision-agriculture ...

Rice production for 2023 is set to log its largest shortfall in two decades, according to Fitch Solutions. "At the global level, the most evident impact of the global rice deficit has been, and still ...

Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...

The Malagasy government aims for self-sufficiency in rice production by 2027, targeting 6 million tons in 2024 and 11 million tons by 2030. Despite recent production increases, challenges such as ...

Many Indonesians remember a time of rice paddy fields with rows of women applying traditional cold powder on their face to avoid sunburn. This portrait is slowly disappearing. Agricultural household ...

As many as 70,000 tonnes of rice have so far been granted the “Low-emission Green Vietnamese Rice” label, following the first ...