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

Rice has historically been a heat-loving plant. In fact, the wild ancestor of cultivated rice once grew primarily on the sweltering, rain-swept Malay and Indochina peninsulas as well as the islands of ...

These varieties result in broken rice levels of up to 40-50%, far exceeding the acceptable limits prescribed by the FCI ...

Beneficial microbes in the soil of rice paddies could be key allies in a collaborative project to build a circular agricultural economy in the celebrated rice-growing region of Niigata, Japan. By ...

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 ...

Delta rice farming could help slow land subsidence and protect California’s water infrastructure. But a new report says the ...

Each summer, nearly 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) of rice is cultivated in the Florida Everglades Agricultural Area, a roughly 1,100-square-mile (2,800-square-kilometer) area south of Lake Okeechobee ...

Rice is one of the staple foods globally, ranking third after wheat and maize in terms of production and consumption. It contributes over 20% of the total calorie intake of the human population. The ...