Author Archives: Rice Today

Sustainable Rice Straw Management is an open access book that provides a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable,...

The golden oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus), shown here growing on rice straw medium at the Philippine Rice Research Institute‘s mushroom...

Promoting the wider use of hydroponics paddy nursery can help Indian rice farmers save significant amounts of water, land, labor, time, and other resources....

e-kakashi, a cloud technology and IoT tool for collecting environmental data and integrates it with farming data to improve the productivity and sustainability...

The 16-year partnership between the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of South Korea has made...

The third-generation hybrid rice developed by Yuan Longping and his team achieved a major yield breakthrough of  1,046.3 kg per mu (about 0.07 hectares). The...

Rice farmers in Ghana are learning to use drones to spray fertilizer more efficiently and map scarce water sources through a project by the Netherlands-based...

Before modern science, Filipino rice farmers relied on superstitions for bountiful harvests ...

Experiments by soil scientists from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia and Huazhong Agricultural University have shown that the phosphorus...

Farmers are shifting from paddy rice to crops that require less water as many parts of Punjab are experiencing a rapid decline in groundwater. About one...