Identification of Indian rice grass is relatively easy because its leaves are tightly rolled from the edges, forming narrow tubes. Its seeds develop in expanded panicles (branched columns of flowers), ...

Botanically, rice is the seed of an aquatic grass. It has been cultivated for more than 8,000 years. The Latin name for rice is Oryza sativa. There are many varieties of rice, such as arborio ...

(Trinidad Guardian) Hundreds of certified, high-yielding disease resistant rice seeds from Guyana were distributed to farmers by the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries (MALF) yesterday.

It's not technically rice; it's the seed, or grain, of a semi-aquatic grass. Known as manoomin by Ojibwe, it is an essential part of their culture. The Ojibwe had once lived on the eastern ...