TRAMKOK, Cambodia (Reuters) - Sok Sarin flashes a toothless grin as he looks at his newly built house and remembers how the other farmers laughed when he pioneered new rice-growing techniques in his ...

A new study offers a promising solution to one of agriculture’s toughest challenges: how to grow more food while using less ...

Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers are steadily improving water conservation tactics. They can now grow rice with about half the irrigation water used in levee rice systems. Chris ...

The Tana Delta will be put under irrigation to boost food security, the Government has announced. Regional Development Minister Fred Gumo said apart from plans by the Tana and Athi Rivers Development ...

Rice farming is hard. It’s complicated. Traditional rice farming takes twice the amount of labor as crops like wheat, corn and potatoes. Paddy rice was built on irrigation networks that forced farmers ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world with rice for generations but cause a ...

For the first time in years, farmers of two chiwogs in Punakha’s Guma Gewog will be able to carry out paddy transplantation ...

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. inspected on Monday the two solar-powered irrigation projects of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) in Bicol, worth PHP322 million, that have boosted rice ...

Bangladesh’s agricultural economy rests heavily on a single seasonal pillar: boro rice. Contributing nearly 60 per cent of ...

When it comes to the annual Arkansas Irrigation Yield Contest, less is always more. The annual University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture program — referred to as “Most Crop per Drop” — ...