As with cows, the problem is burps — lots and lots of tiny burps. Growing rice requires flooding fields, called paddies, with staggering quantities of water. Microbes known as archaea multiply ...

Beneficial microbes in the soil of rice paddies could be key allies in a collaborative project to build a circular agricultural economy in the celebrated rice-growing region of Niigata ...

It offers favourable growing conditions, mild weather, plentiful sunny days, and snowmelt that gathers nutrients as it moves from the mountain, through the forest and finally to the rice paddies.

to take on the task of tending to vacant rice paddies. Once rice seeds have been planted by a drone, a succession of robotic technologies still to be developed would deal with weeding and reaping.

A two-acre paddy field in northern Thailand ... friends and family to create the design -- using AI technology and satellite imagery -- with rice plants as the main medium. Requiring meticulous ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki Prefecture--Robotics took over the task of growing rice plants in a paddy here, slashing the time needed for cultivation by 95 percent while simultaneously ensuring an almost ...

We used to grow our dinner staple in the city’s countryside, until farmers abandoned their paddies to find less back-breaking jobs with better pay. Recently though, homegrown rice has been ...

called "field chasing ducks" to eat their way through rice paddies after a harvest. "They help eat golden apple snails and the remains of unwanted rice husks that remain in the field from the last ...