For more than a century her family have been rice farmers, but erratic rainfall and water being diverted for industry have made cultivating rice more difficult. Seven years ago she switched to a ...

Helping farmers adopt the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) enables them to grow far more food more cost-effectively and sustainably, producing higher yields with less water, fertilizer, seeds, and ...

But rice farmer Takashi Seki, 71, remains despondent because about one-third of his rice plants in one area under cultivation has wilted. In place of water-soaked rice paddies, the soil is ...

Rice farmers in Thailand are enlisting these birds, called "field chasing ducks" to eat their way through rice paddies after a harvest. "They help eat golden apple snails and the remains of ...