A villager drives a tractor during a traditional spring plowing ceremony in Xierong village, Lhasa, Southwest China's Xizang ...

We arrived five days past the best time to sow rice according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar. Farmers in black boots and large sun hats treaded knee-deep in the wet paddies as they quickly but ...

Researchers hope to register their rice in China for farmers and are working with firms to add oxantel to fertilisers Chinese and Swedish ... emissions from rice paddies occur when microbes ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki Prefecture--Robotics took over the task of growing rice plants in a paddy here, slashing the time needed for cultivation by 95 percent while simultaneously ensuring an almost ...

The craft flew over a 1000-square-meter rice paddy, scattering seeds treated beforehand with powdered iron to ensure a smooth drop from the air. The seeding process took just 10 minutes.

“I’ve planted Chinese hybrid rice for over a decade,” the Filipino said, gazing across the green and yellow paddies in Central Luzon, dubbed “rice granary of the Philippines”. Rice is a ...