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However, the initiative faces two key challenges: low yield and the reluctance of farmers to accept the new method of rice cultivation in about 25% of the country’s paddy fields. Yet ...

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Legal action by Greenpeace, meanwhile, has blocked the commercial cultivation of genetically modified Golden Rice in the Philippines, putting the brakes on an innovation slated to save lives by ...

adding that poor countries like Liberia which have limited financial and technical capacity to adapt or mitigate face significant challenges. She said, rice production is becoming low, with many ...

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This article was written by Shukhrat Hurramov and Konstantin Agafonov for Vlast.kz and published on March 14, 2025. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement.

SINGAPORE – To mitigate the effects of rice cultivation on climate change and meet rising demand for rice, researchers in Singapore have come up with a way to grow it more sustainably.

Japan also strictly limits rice production in order to keep prices high and support domestic rice growers, meaning minor disruptions to the supply chain can have disproportionately large impacts.