Rice farmers have had to cope with just about every aspect of this dilemma: high and low temperatures, droughts, salinity, osmotic stress, heavy rains, floods, and frost.

Climate change brings other risks. You can no longer count on the monsoon season to start in May, as before. And so in dry years, farmers now rush to sow rice 10 to 30 days earlier than usual ...

Rice is a vital Colombian staple and it is now the key crop of central Colombia's tropical grassland plains – Los Llanos.. In 2007, 461,000 hectares (1.1 million acres) of rice were sown in ...

The Philippines needs rice — but young people don’t want to farm it. Some 2.4 million Filipinos work as rice farmers. But for young people, a rice farmer’s grueling and often impoverished ...

Rice feeds the world—but it uses more water and emits more methane than any other crop. Jim Whitaker and his daughter, Jessica Whitaker Allen, are changing that on their Arkansas family farm.

By Kaori Kaneko JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice ...

This year, rice farmers in the Sacramento Valley will produce around 20 percent less rice. Image. Kim Gallagher, a rice farmer, in a field of her sunflowers, which require far less water than rice.

Over the last 100 years, the number of Black farmers has dropped precipitously. Most estimates report that Black farmers have lost more than 12 million acres of land in the last century, or 90 percent ...

Jason Waller has been a rice farmer all his adult life, like his father and grandfather before him. But this spring for the first time, he intends to plant only corn and soybeans on his farm in ...

A lively cat image created by Thunyapong Jaikum, a thai farmer and artist, is seen in rice fields in Chiang Rai province, north of Thailand on Dec. 16, 2023. REUTERS A sleeping cat hugs a fish in ...

Jubilee Justice’s rice program, called the Black Farmers Cohort, currently consists of 10 farmers from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky. Collectively, they ...

Ivorian rice farmer Francois Kasse Yao has struggled to make ends meet with only one harvest per year before he planted a new variety, resistant to unpredictable weather conditions capable of ...