Climate change may significantly impact arsenic levels in paddy rice, a staple food for millions across Asia, reveals a new study from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The ...

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Rice farming is a big-ticket item in greenhouse gas emissions. A staple food for more than half of the world’s population, rice is almost always grown in flooded paddies, contributing 11 percent of ...

Among these concerns, the most widely discussed issue globally is the claim that rice fields are major sources of greenhouse ...

MUMBAI, July 20 (Reuters) - India has prohibited the export of non-basmati white rice with immediate effect, according to a government notice on Thursday, after a late start to seasonal monsoon rains ...

The set boro rice cultivation target has exceeded in the Rangpur agricultural region, where farmers are expecting a bumper ...

The team, led by Chengbo Shen, Zhe Ji, and Shan Li, identified a rice gene that helps the rice plant keep its balance when nitrogen is scarce ...