Sam (left), Jim (center), and Scott (far right) Whitaker talk about the work needing to be done on their family farm. Credit: Phillip Powell / Arkansas Times As groundwater levels in the Arkansas ...

Since the 1970s, Vietnam’s “rice-first” policy facilitated the construction of an elaborate series of dikes and dams that allowed farmers in the Mekong Delta to flood their fields to allow for ...

Thumbs up for a rice operation implementing the Fish in the Fields program to help reduce methane emissions. Rice feeds half of the world’s population. Conventional rice harvesting, though, is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Subak, says I Made Chakra Widia, is a very clever system. Chakra is the fourth generation of a rice-farming family in Pengosekan, near the village ...

So farmers water them to make sure the plants get the nutrients they need to grow, but never enough to fully flood them. In contrast, rice is often grown in very wet, flooded soils. Oxygen that would ...