Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the South American country of Suriname, the Maroon community is growing incredible, rare strains of rice made to flourish in ...

A team of scientists from UC Riverside and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Philippines, recently published a study unlocking the secret to just how rice seeds might be able to ...

Norsworthy reported that in his trials with a 1x-labeled rate application of Command, Viludo lowered bleaching in the rice ...

A rice field in Bengal, India. Rice is a staple crop for billions of people, but it has proved difficult to bring high-yield hybrid rice strainers to farmers. UC Davis scientists have developed a ...

After more than 20 years of theorizing about it, scientists have tweaked a hybrid variety of rice so that some of the plants produce cloned seeds. No plant sex necessary. The feat, described December ...

In Cambodia, farmers have been learning a new way to grow rice that uses fewer seeds but results in greater yields—all of which translates into more income for their families. Some farmers like Khek ...

Bangladesh has recorded a sharp jump in hybrid rice coverage as many farmers gradually move away from farming inbred and local varieties, looking for higher yields and profits.