A farmer in northeast Arkansas says he’s still waiting to replant after several thousand acres of his cropland flooded ...

Pokkali rice farmers demand district takeover of flooded fields; monitoring committees formed to protect rice cultivation.

A cold, dry part of Chile might not sound like the best place to grow rice, a famously thirsty grain that thrives in tropical ...

A new variety of rice, called Jaspe, has been developed by scientists. Combined with a less water-intensive growing technique ...

A cold, dry part of Chile might not sound like the best place to grow rice, a famously thirsty grain ... has for generations cultivated rice in flooded fields, or paddies.

But producing rice typically emits a lot of methane – a powerful global warming gas. The methane is produced by microorganisms that thrive in the flooded fields where rice is grown. They break down ...

This is the shocking moment a huge crocodile was caught swimming through rice fields in Indonesia. The 14ft reptile initially went beneath villagers' homes before making its way into the flooded land ...

“This could take another 10 days to drain off … if it doesn’t rain,” Christian said, pointing to one of the flooded fields. In a text on Tuesday, Rice Extension Agronomist Jarrod ...

Each Chilean eats on average 10kg of rice per year - nearly half of which is grown domestically and 80% of that in flooded fields, according to the SRI-Rice research centre at Cornell University.