Dryness delays planting in India, Southeast Asia, Australia Poor Indian monsoon forecast prompts worries over export curbs ...

Indonesia is accelerating a rice planting campaign across 750 hectares in Lamongan, East Java, to anticipate the impact of El ...

Rice is a staple for billions but growing it contributes to climate change, as flooded paddy fields release large amounts of methane – a potent greenhouse gas.

Rice has historically been a heat-loving plant. In fact, the wild ancestor of cultivated rice once grew primarily on the sweltering, rain-swept Malay and Indochina peninsulas as well as the islands of ...

Rice cultivation has long been a notable contributor to global emissions. Singapore scientists are now trialling new methods ...

Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it ...