JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world with rice for generations but cause a ...

PHOENIX — Ronald Rayner has been fascinated with water since he was a boy on his father’s farm in Goodyear. Now a partner on the family farm, A Tumbling-T Ranches, he has found a way to conserve water ...

Drip irrigation applies water through small holes called emitters in a network of hoses or pipes rather than through broadcasting sprinklers or hoses. It delivers the water more closely to the root ...

Mulched drip irrigation is a technique practiced largely in arid regions of China to improve soil quality, increase crop yield, and save water. In a recent study published in Npj Sustainable ...

Rice paddies are responsible for 11% of the world’s methane emissions. There are more than 200 million rice farms in Asia. Working with local farmers, researchers in Bali, Indonesia, have discovered ...

People play in the mud as they plant rice saplings during National Paddy Day also called Asar Pandra, that marks the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields as monsoon season arrives, in ...