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Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can ...
Dry rice fields in Pangasinan raise concerns. By Russel Simorio. Published November 16, 2023 2:12 PM. Photo via One North Central Luzon. The lack of water supply for irrigation for at least four weeks ...
KATY – The extreme heat and drought conditions are having a big impact on farmers.. In Katy, Ken Jasek says it’s taking a tremendous amount of water to grow his rice fields. Jasek has been ...
COLUSA, Calif.—Rick Richter has spent the past 43 years flying biplanes over California’s Sacramento Valley, dropping rice seeds into vast, flooded fields that churn out grain for consumers ...
Some 1,500 hectares of rice fields are currently being affected by the worsening El Niño conditions ... Aklan’s rice production plummets as dry weather turns fields to dust. Feb 28, 2024 4:02 ...
Plowing out a space for dry-field rice farming. As the number of rice farmers continues to decline in Japan, a method of growing the crop without flooding the fields is gaining attention for its ...
Kuigake are wooden poles that are about 2 meters tall, and some 60 bundles of rice plants are piled and hung on each one. Around 1,000 poles are standing in the terraced rice fields.
A drone photo taken on May 8, 2025 shows a self-driving transplanter powered by the Beidou navigation system operating in a paddy rice field of a farm of Beidahuang Group in northeast China's ...