allows water to flow continuously down through successive rice fields (see Build a Rice Paddy). Farmers usually plant rice seed in a seedbed, then transplant young plants into the paddies ...

The rice plant and soil microorganisms have a collaborative ... The alternative is to just wet the fields less often, which brings down populations of methanogenic microbes. But that requires ...

Rice fields across India host a variety of wild, edible plants that Indigenous communities value for their nutritional and medicinal properties. But these “weeds” are rapidly disappearing.

Twelve years ago, rice breeders with Lundberg Family Farms crossed two rice plant “parents” in hopes ... when it comes to growing rice, as fields are flooded to drown out weeds.

Previous research had suggested that paddy-field soil might contain nitrogen-fixing microbes that can provide rice plants with additional nutrients to support their growth, Shida says.

"Farmers have ultimately brought 5,09,056 hectares of land under Boro rice cultivation, exceeding the fixed target by 78 hectares, or 0.02 percent," said Agriculturist Md Afzal Hossain.

Another concern, Pastor said, is the mines operating near the areas where rice grows, mainly in northern Minnesota ... such as agricultural fields, sewage treatment plants and acid rain, Pastor said.

Food science and entomology researchers from the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station teamed up to harness plasma and measure its effects on rice seed.