Previous research had suggested that paddy-field soil might contain nitrogen-fixing microbes that can provide rice plants with additional nutrients to support their growth, Shida says.
“We wanted to analyse the long-term, deep data for paddy fields so we could assess the effect of climate change and management on rice crop yield and soil,” he says. The next step was to ...
Arsenic is naturally found in water and soil, but it finds its way into rice because rice is grown in flooded paddy fields that use a lot of irrigation water. Irrigation water is often polluted ...
Read more Spreading rock dust on farms boosts crop yields and captures CO2 The emissions come from soil microbes in the flooded paddy fields where rice is grown. These organisms break down ...
The Rabi season’s paddy harvesting has started in East Godavari district on a pleasant note, with farmers reporting good ...
Harvesters collect rice from black soil paddy fields at a farm in Huachuan, Heilongjiang province, in October. ZHANG GUOJUN/XINHUA A revolutionary land management model is being applied across the ...
TIRUCHY: The application of modern technology in agriculture could be a means to address the manpower shortage in the sector ...
Pulwama: The Jammu and Kashmir government has taken a strategic approach to paddy cultivation by reintroducing traditional ...