Nearly all of the 93,583 hectares of drought-affected rice fields across 17 provinces and the capital, have been irrigated ...

Terracing, which requires constant maintenance, allows water to flow continuously down through successive rice fields (see Build a Rice Paddy). Farmers usually plant rice seed in a seedbed ...

In the winter, rice fields in the Sacramento region are flooded with water. It’s a common method to prepare the field for new growth. With the help of a program led by California Trout ...

It is flooded with water that must be kept at a constant ... One project that came up was rice field monitoring using wireless sensor networks and it caught the attention of some of the members ...

Current practices are wasteful of increasingly scarce and costly resources such as water and fossil fuels. Heavily fertilized, continuously flooded rice fields produce greenhouse gases that contribute ...

For decades, the number of salmon in the river has sharply dropped, but now scientists believe they just might have a ...

Rice farmers in the Weta enclave can now breathe a sigh of relief as dredging works are set to begin on the choked drainage system, which has long hampered farming activities in the area.A long-reach ...

With that higher yield, the farm can use fewer resources like water; this is especially important when it comes to growing rice, as fields are flooded to drown out weeds. [Photo: Lundberg Family ...