This fragrant, tender, fluffy rice variety is cherished across South Asia and the Middle East.

Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions rise, potentially putting billions of people at risk of cancers and ...

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 ...

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?

Cheap soil test helps farmers plan fields Wednesday, 19 September 2001 Danny Kingsley - ABC Science Online Patchy paddocks: this map shows the variation in surface soil acidity of a rice field.

“A major weedy rice infestation can reduce crop harvests in a given field by over 80 per cent,” he said. Advertisement According to the World Economic Forum , Asian rice producers account for ...

Experts said that though direct seeding of rice saves labour, water and energy, it is recommended only for soils with a medium to heavy texture Monday, Jul 07, 2025 New Delhi o C ...

Extreme weather and pollution have increased the salt content in some soil, making growing conditions harsh for salt-sensitive crops like rice. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano detail a possible ...