Sanae Takaichi came to power promising to tame inflation. But she’s boosting the crop’s cost to appease a subsidy-fuelled ...

From the paddy fields of India to supermarket shelves, Tilda is fine-tuning an environmental strategy that has appeal across ...

High tech and age-old agricultural traditions are being used to reverse the decline in one of Japan’s top rice-growing regions. More than four centuries of agricultural tradition are at risk of coming ...

Johnny Hunter II was just 10 years old when he lost his dad. At the time, Hunter’s family had 12,000 acres of rice and soybeans under cultivation near Dexter, Mo. And while his mom could have sold the ...

Rice growers in northern Greece had braced for a tough 2026 season as competition from non-EU exporters heated up but many of ...

Each summer, nearly 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) of rice is cultivated in the Florida Everglades Agricultural Area, a roughly 1,100-square-mile (2,800-square-kilometer) area south of Lake Okeechobee ...

After the Civil War and the end of slavery, it gradually became uneconomic to produce rice in South Carolina. The rice plantations, mills and traders that once brought so much wealth into Charleston ...

Beneficial microbes in the soil of rice paddies could be key allies in a collaborative project to build a circular agricultural economy in the celebrated rice-growing region of Niigata, Japan. By ...

With more and more farmers preferring paddy, the Union government has been focusing on crop diversification. It is not only ...

The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Lagos State Chapter, has blamed low cultivation of rice for the hike in price of the commodity across the country. Its Chairman, Raphael Hunsa, said ...

RICE farmers in Region Two have welcomed the government’s $300 per bag paddy subsidy, describing the initiative as timely and beneficial in easing production ...