Smallholder farmers are the backbone of local rice production in Ghana. They produce more than 50% of the total, writes Selorm Yaotse Dorvlo of the University of Ghana. Rice has become a big part of ...

Hisar: The integrated paddy thresher machine with dryer, de-husker and polisher developed by the scientists of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU) here has received a ...

The agriculture ministry has allocated 100 rice-planting machines to communities across 13 provinces. Distributed on September 13, the transplanters were a gift from former Prime Minister Hun Sen, ...

Terraced rice paddies, masterpieces of ancient engineering, have existed in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere for as long as two millennia. You don't have to be an expert to know that the building ...

In the unlikely event that you successfully grow and harvest rice in New York City, a much larger challenge awaits: How do you remove the hard shell, called a hull or husk, that surrounds each grain?

Paddy cultivation across Kodagu has taken a back seat due to the bad weather condition and wildlife conflict even as the sector is now faced with acute shortage of labour. While hundreds of labourers ...