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Q&A: Scientists use rice cultivation to preserve soil in Florida's Everglades Agricultural Area
One way to slow down this subsidence and preserve the nutrient-rich soil is to flood the area during Florida's rainy season and use the fields to grow rice. The fields are flooded using water from ...
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Rice variant slashes planet-warming methane emissions by 70 per cent
Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much less methane, a potent ...
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Curbing toxic metals in spinach and rice crops grown for baby food
In new research published in the academic journal Environmental Geochemistry and Health, University of Delaware scientists have found that flooded rice fields tend to contain higher amounts of ...
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Firefighters search for flood victims in Valencia rice fields
Social media app TikTok said on Friday it was making Android package kits available on its website so that U.S. Android users can download the app and connect on it. TikTok to give package kits on ...
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How flooding soybeans in early reproductive stages impacts yield and seed composition
Farmers who use zero-grade fields for rice as their main production system are also interested in flood-tolerant soybean ...
Guyana Chronicle1d
Authorities delivering support to Johanna rice farmers affected by heavy rainfall
Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, during a meeting with rice farmers in Johanna, Black Bush Polder, on Wednesday, stressed that the PPP/C government continues to work along with the ...
Guyana Chronicle4d
Additional pump to be placed at Number 43 to assist rice farmers
AN additional pump will be placed at Number 43 Village, Corentyne, bringing the total there to three, to assist rice farmers within Johanna, Black Bush Polder ...