“Rice farming is a fundamental part of our culture in Japan. Niigata prefecture has one of the biggest areas of paddy fields in the country.” But decades of Koshihikari rice farming in the ...

Enclosed by mesh fences and walls sits a lone rice paddy stretching out across 1,100 square meters in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. This isolated space on the grounds of the National Agriculture ...

Farmers need alternative and sustainable rice production systems to meet their rice needs. One alternative is the production of rice in flooded, terraced fields (montane paddy). This option is not new ...

said there was a need to encourage paddy cultivation to meet the needs of the South-East Asian countries as it would also help improve farmers’ income. Establishment of modern technology rice ...

Rice farmers in Black Bush Polder (BBP) staged a protest on Tuesday, blocking sections of the main access road at Lesbeholden to demand higher prices for paddy. The protest escalated with tractors ...

exemplified by the establishment of rice pyramids comprising one million paddy through the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP). Launched in 2015, this initiative aimed ...