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.

Scientists in Japan have conducted a field experiment in rice plantations hosting agrivoltaics systems and have found that ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Researchers find combining local composts, especially phumdi, made from unique floating vegetation in Loktak Lake, with ...

A recently published article in the journal Weed Science demonstrates just how devastating Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus ...

A two-year field trial in China demonstrated that the ... The researchers added fumarate to the soil of rice plants grown in pots, which increased methane emissions from the plants.

SINGAPORE: To mitigate the effects of rice cultivation on climate change and meet rising demand for rice, researchers in ...

Rice plants have a unique ability to absorb arsenic from the soil, especially when grown in flooded fields—a common practice ...

Heavily fertilized, continuously flooded rice fields produce greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, and misuse of inorganic fertilizers and agrochemicals results in soil and water ...

Rice fallow pulse cultivation is sowing ... So we must again irrigate and plough the field to soften the soil before creating channels and bunds for sowing. This, and other reasons restrict ...