AS WITH all plants, rice needs water in order to thrive. However, when it comes to rice, the impression that most folk have of the plant is that it has to be grown in water at least knee-deep.

How do you think rice plants grow? 2. ... Do you know any other plants that look like this? Try to find the name that we give to this group of plants. Date of broadcast: 17 Sep 2001.

When determining how many plants to grow, consider that it takes approximately 10 plants to produce 1 pound of rice. Since each plant occupies only 1 foot of garden space, a 10-by-10-foot plot ...

Apsara Bharati and her neighbors are spread across a small bit of land in Kavre, about 20 miles outside Kathmandu, Nepal's capital. The women bend to plant rice seedlings in mud up to their calves ...