A country that is home to around one-fifth of the entire planet’s population faces some serious challenges....
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On a steaming hot Beijing day in August 2007, a group of researchers from China Agricultural University...
The signs are ominous across West Africa. The price of rice is rising and, consequently, a...
According to the latest figures from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), paddy...
As if rice farming weren’t hard enough. It is patently clear now that humans have...
“Nature has sent the rats to our homesteads by thousands, and farmers are being eaten off the...
Nitrogen (N) is without doubt the nutrient that most limits rice production. It is typically required in...
. In the 1870s, scientists exploring Amazonia in South America made an unusual discovery. Working independently, James...
Wars ripped apart the social fabric of the Mekong basin in the 1960s and 1970s, bringing suffering...
Volcanoes are a double edged sword for the rice farmers of East Java. In many areas,...
