Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Farmers plant rice saplings on the field while celebrating National Paddy Day, also called Asar Pandra, that marks the ...

Irrigation significantly exacerbated the earthquake-triggered landslides in Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in 2018, according to an international study led by Nanyang Technological ...

To address our acute rice shortage and high prices, spending on hybrid rice is much more cost effective than building new irrigation. An investment of an additional P12 for hybrid rice seeds in two ...

Ben-Gurion University is joining with drip-irrigation pioneer Netafim to help increase the output of rice in parched California. In a gala announcement at the annual policy conference of the American ...

Forecasters expect the El Niño now underway in the tropical Pacific to strengthen into a strong or very strong climate driver later this year.

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 ...

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 ...

A rice nursery in Gakonya village in Kiharu, Murang’a where farmers have transformed the former swampy area into rice fields using irrigation water fetched from Rutune river. [Boniface Gikandi, ...

The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) began releasing irrigation water to canals in Pangasinan on Thursday, July 2, ...

A move by the National Irrigation Authority (NIA) to reduce operations at the lower Kuja rice irrigation scheme has grounded operations of millers. Already, rice millers are bearing the brunt of the ...

JERUSALEM: 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 surprising level ...