LOS BAÑOS, Philippines — The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) has been advocating for tougher policy support for direct-seeded rice (DSR) ...

The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF)has signed a license agreement with Japan Tobacco for the use of a transformation technology to develop new rice varieties for the Sub-Saharan ...

As a staple food for more than half of the global population, the high and stable yield of rice is directly related to food security. As the world’s largest rice producer, China has increased rice ...

The "microbiome" is the unique population of microorganisms found in and on every plant and animal. Scientists have now genetically altered that population in rice plants, making them more resistant ...

Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF) classifiers with matched features produced more complete paddy rice mapping results than those with unmatched features, reducing misclassifications ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released Africa's first high-resolution rice distribution map, featuring a resolution of ...

Government agencies have begun introducing new rice varieties and climate-smart technology to reduce the shortage of rice in Kenya which stands at 600,000 metric tons annually. According to the ...