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.

“We wanted to analyse the long-term, deep data for paddy fields so we could assess the effect of climate change and management on rice crop yield and soil,” he says. The next step was to ...

Arsenic is naturally found in water and soil, but it finds its way into rice because rice is grown in flooded paddy fields that use a lot of irrigation water. Irrigation water is often polluted ...

One alternative is the production of rice in flooded, terraced fields (montane paddy). This option is not new; however, farmers are developing these montane paddy fields much more now than in the past ...

Read more Spreading rock dust on farms boosts crop yields and captures CO2 The emissions come from soil microbes in the flooded paddy fields where rice is grown. These organisms break down ...

Enriching soil with organic matter rather than inorganic ... and up to a 50 percent savings in water usage. The rice plant health and ecosystems in the paddy fields continually improve. SRI has ...

Harvesters collect rice from black soil paddy fields at a farm in Huachuan, Heilongjiang province, in October. ZHANG GUOJUN/XINHUA A revolutionary land management model is being applied across the ...

TIRUCHY: The application of modern technology in agriculture could be a means to address the manpower shortage in the sector ...

Pulwama: The Jammu and Kashmir government has taken a strategic approach to paddy cultivation by reintroducing traditional ...