picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance. Farmer Tanyapong Jaikham and a team of workers planted the seedlings at ...

Rice farmers are shifting their planting calendars. Plant breeders are working on seeds to withstand high temperatures or salty soils. Hardy heirloom varieties are being resurrected. And where ...

When Heinz Thomet decided in 2011 to plant rice, perhaps the first farmer in more than 130 years to do so in the Chesapeake region, he remembered a magazine article he had read nearly two decades ...

Over the past 30 years, small farmers in a handful of countries around the world have been working on a rice-growing method called "rice intensification." Many experts and funders long dismissed ...

Rice farmer Prapatpon Rungsatien perches on a plastic chair in a classroom in rural Thailand. Ceiling fans stir the humid air as she and 49 of her neighbors hunker down for a talk on Southeast ...

Rizzotti, a seventh-generation rice farmer, said the paddy was already dead — “not a single grain of rice can come from this,” he said — and then he gestured to an adjacent field ...

Satish Kumar sits in front of his submerged rice paddy in India’s Haryana state, looking despairingly at his ruined crops. “I’ve suffered a tremendous loss,” said the third generation ...

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (KATV) — One sixth-generation local farmer founded Foodwise, a scientific and social enterprise developing and sourcing special rice varieties, that donated 15-thousand pounds ...

Many of them were rice farmers in jumpsuits and rubber boots, carrying placards declaring “Farmers are a national treasure” or “NO RICE NO LIFE”. A combination of factors, such as ageing ...