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Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain ...
Since last summer rice prices have soared as supplies have fallen short of demand and the government has long paid farmers to ...
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Bull-powered rice paddy tilling
A farmer drives two bulls, connected with a plow, called "gyeori" in Korean, to till a rice field during a demonstration of ...
Fluridone offers a new tool in the arsenal to fight herbicide resistance in Palmer pigweed, but it can cause injury to some rice cultivars, depending on when it is used.
Japan’s farm minister Taku Eto stepped down on Wednesday following public outrage over one hot-button issue: rice.
Rice is an alignment-versatile receiver whom Andy Reid utilizes to create mismatches against the defense. The 6’0”, 195-pound ...
Kyle Whittingham and his Utah football coaching staff have been very busy out on the recruiting trails this spring, arranging visits and extending offers to som ...
The aspiration of our design actually comes from an image of site. The golden rice fields, stretching as far as the eyes can see, seem to retain a sense of well-being of all primitives.
The 1980 Topps Basketball set was a unique one, serving three-player panels on each card. It was far from a smash hit upon its release. However, in the time since, the set, and especially the ...
A farmer harvests rice in a paddy field in Tambasasayama, Hyogo Prefecture ... to rice shortages and policies protecting its local farmers, while farmers remain an important political demographic. The ...
Watch as the rice passes through various stages of production, starting from the harvested paddy fields and moving through cutting-edge machinery that refines it into its final form. From the ...
At the same time, yield rocketed, with each seed yielding about thirty plants—nearly ten times more than a conventional rice field. Irrigating rather than flooding rice fields "is a historic step ...