The process of creating dedicated beds for seedlings is replaced by a drone’s scattering of seeds directly on rice paddies. Conditions in each of the fields ... sites to harvest the crop ...

which were already grown in 12.8 percent of the country’s rice fields in 2022. One of these, the Niigata-born Shinnosuke variety, had 97.3 percent of its harvest classified as first-grade rice.

Rice production in Bangladesh may fall in the current marketing year of 2024-25, which began last May, for a reduction in the acreage of Aman season paddy due to repeated floods. In a report on ...