(SOUNDBITE) (English) ROEI YONAI, NETAFIM HEAD OF STRATEGIC CROPS:"Producing one kilo of rice need 5,000 litters of water. By using drip irrigation to grow rice, you can save 70 percent of the water, ...
The arsenic that has contaminated much of Bangladesh's drinking water supply is also getting into its rice, according to a new study. Irrigating rice fields with tainted well water could be ...
A new long-term field study shows that how biochar is applied matters just as much as whether it is used at all. Researchers report that small, repeated additions of biochar combined with water-saving ...
George Tibbitts, a third-generation farmer in Arbuckle, CA, has been growing rice on his 1,200-acre farm for three decades. His Sacramento Valley irrigation district, one of the oldest in the state, ...
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Extreme heat dries up rice fields in Mlang, Cotabato
MLANG, Cotabato — Prolonged extreme heat has begun to take a toll on agriculture in this town, where rice fields have dried ...
As California entered a second year of drought last spring, the slash in water allocation didn’t catch Rachel Krach and Greg Massa, owners of Massa Organics, by surprise. The real shocker came when ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world with rice for generations but cause a ...
People play in the mud as they plant rice saplings during National Paddy Day also called Asar Pandra, that marks the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields as monsoon season arrives, in ...
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