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Rice fields across India host a variety of wild, edible plants that Indigenous communities value for their nutritional and medicinal properties. But these “weeds” are rapidly disappearing.

Parasitic weeds are ruthless freeloaders, stealing nutrients from crops and devastating harvests. But what if farmers could ...

With that higher yield, the farm can use fewer resources like water; this is especially important when it comes to growing rice, as fields are flooded to drown out weeds. [Photo: Lundberg Family ...

A recently published article in the journal Weed Science demonstrates just how devasting Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) can be for furrow-irrigated rice production, even in small amounts. The ...

If the weed reaches a rice field, it could twine around the rice plants, causing them to fall and resulting in a drop in the harvest. Alligatorweed was first confirmed in Japan in 1989 ...

A new rice variety being released by rice researchers at the Louisiana State University (LSU) AgCenter is showing promise. Ashley Davenport November 15, 2020 02:57 PM ...

Across sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, places already struggling with food insecurity, entire fields of staples like rice and sorghum can be lost to a group of insidious weeds that drain ...

Rice is cultivated all over the world in fields known as rice paddies and it ... seedlings from growing but high enough to drown any weeds that would compete with the rice stalks for nutrients.

A new study published in the journal CABI Reviews highlights the critical role that integrated pest management (IPM) plays in combating the threat fall armyworm poses to Asian rice security.