Rice is a staple food for billions of people worldwide, but environmental and climate changes threaten the agricultural yields necessary to support the needs of an ever growing human population. An ...

Rising day and night temperatures are threatening rice, wheat, and maize production by disrupting plant growth, grain filling, and grain quality, putting global food security at risk. Precision ...

A team of scientists in China and the UK have discovered a potential breakthrough that could reduce rice farmers’ dependence on chemical fertilizers to sustain crop yields for the world’s most-eaten ...

Severe flooding has slashed global rice yields in recent decades, threatening food security for billions of people who depend on the grain. The losses amounted to approximately 4.3%, or 18 million ...

Low yields and the absence of a reliable market have prevented nutritionally enhanced rice varieties from gaining popularity among farmers. In Bangladesh, most farmers still prioritise higher yields ...

Bangladesh is now the world’s third-largest rice producer, with output rising from 10.9 million metric tons in 1971 to 42.0 million metric tons in 2022. Despite the abundance of the staple crop, ...

Severe flooding has slashed global rice yields in recent decades, threatening food security for billions of people who depend on the grain. The losses amounted to approximately 4.3%, or 18 million ...

Fall rainstorms dampened many rice farmers’ expectations of a good crop this past fall by delaying harvest, reducing grain quality and increasing ruts in fields. While final yield figures haven’t yet ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) have finally identified the master ...