The work is backbreaking and relentless, and in Japan and other Asian countries ... continuously down through successive rice fields (see Build a Rice Paddy). Farmers usually plant rice seed ...

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

A 1,000-square-meter rice paddy field shows Ohtani wearing Japan’s national team uniform throwing a pitch in the World Baseball Classic this year. The two-way superstar of the Los Angeles Angels ...

“Rice farming is a fundamental part of our culture in Japan. Niigata prefecture has one of the biggest areas of paddy fields in the country.” But decades of Koshihikari rice farming in the ...

a research team in Japan aims to create a functional compost tailor-made for rice cultivation. Applying this microbe-rich compost to paddy fields could maximize yield, while reducing the need for ...

but farmers working among the paddy fields and ancient rice terraces say that climate change is hurting the harvest of rice, long a cornerstone of Japan’s diet. “Last year, an exceptional heat ...