The black birds were a good omen. We didn’t know it at the time. We just thought their appearance on our farm was unusual. The black ibis is a rare sight in our village. The arrival of these birds in ...

Rice, the staple food for over half of the world 39;s population, faces growing threats from drought, soil degradation, and ...

Mention Japan’s Niigata prefecture and rice usually comes to mind. Niigata ranks first in the nation in terms of rice cultivation area and production levels. This northwestern region is flanked by ...

The Philippine Rice Research Institute’s Drones4Rice initiative is pushing rice production deeper into digital agriculture, using drones to automate seeding, spraying and fertilizer application — a ...

The Department of Science and Technology formally turns over the Certificate of Ownership for a Compact Impeller Brown Rice ...

TWO farmer groups in Abucay, Bataan received brown rice processing technologies from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) that are expected to enhance their productivity, reduce production ...

A climate-resilient rice production initiative has trained 160 lead farmers, nearly half of them women, across four districts in Ghana, ...

The global production of six major food and animal feed crops (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, cassava, and millet) has dramatically increased and far outpaced world population growth between 1961 and ...

Ebonyi, aptly titled the ‘Salt of the Nation,’ is blessed with both vast mineral wealth and fertile plains suited for ...

The Malagasy government aims for self-sufficiency in rice production by 2027, targeting 6 million tons in 2024 and 11 million tons by 2030. Despite recent production increases, challenges such as ...