To achieve sustainable rice production and food security in the region, farmers in six Asian countries have used nuclear derived climate-smart agricultural practices and significantly increased their ...

Mention Japan’s Niigata prefecture and rice usually comes to mind. Niigata ranks first in the nation in terms of rice cultivation area and production levels. This northwestern region is flanked by ...

The Philippine Rice Research Institute’s Drones4Rice initiative is pushing rice production deeper into digital agriculture, using drones to automate seeding, spraying and fertilizer application — a ...

Government agencies have begun introducing new rice varieties and climate-smart technology to reduce the shortage of rice in Kenya which stands at 600,000 metric tons annually. According to the ...

High tech and age-old agricultural traditions are being used to reverse the decline in one of Japan’s top rice-growing regions. More than four centuries of agricultural tradition are at risk of coming ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is using drone technology to spray herbicides and manage weeds in rice plantations. According to PhilRice, researchers ...

Rice, the staple food for over half of the world 39;s population, faces growing threats from drought, soil degradation, and ...

Experts said the slow uptake is mainly due to the country’s traditional irrigation water pricing system, uneven land topography, and significant gaps in farmers’ knowledge and awareness.

Discovered genes provide strategies to protect rice crops against climate change and to domesticate wild relatives that can grow in currently unproductive habitats A new study, seen in Nature Genetics ...