It started like a fairytale. Back in 1685, a purse of magical seeds was exchanged in the port of Charleston, S.C., between a shipwrecked pirate of unknown origins and a local doctor from a mysterious ...

The process of removing rocks and plowing the rice field with your hoe to prepare an environment where rice can easily grow. The better you plow, the better the rice-plant’s roots will spread and grow ...

ESSEX, Mo. -- At Missouri Delta Farms, airplanes sow rice seed from the sky and a private attorney helps grow the farm's revenues by reaping as much federal aid as possible. In both respects, the farm ...

As a more cost-effective tool, XAG agricultural drones become the “new favourite” of Vietnamese farmers to grow rice. The drone can spray pesticides, spread fertilizers, and sow seeds directly by ...

Rice farming is a big-ticket item in greenhouse gas emissions. A staple food for more than half of the world’s population, rice is almost always grown in flooded paddies, contributing 11 percent of ...

Yang Xiugang, a rice seed-production specialist from Guizhou province, has spent most of the past decade helping farmers in Nigeria develop rice farming techniques. He first went to Nigeria's Jigawa ...

It takes more than an hour on foot to traverse the muddy terrain that leads to Antoinette’s expansive rice farm in Chamassuia, a local village about five kilometres from Lôvua settlement in Angola’s ...

Bangladesh has recorded a sharp jump in hybrid rice coverage as many farmers gradually move away from farming inbred and local varieties, looking for higher yields and profits.