Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...

The higher arsenic levels are likely due to climate-related changes in soil chemistry that favor arsenic that can more easily ...

READ: Low-carbon rice production helps Vietnam meet emission target It ... This requires less water than traditional farming since his paddy fields aren’t continuously submerged.

and the government of Vietnam have launched a smartphone app, which monitors the saltiness of the water. The data helps rice farmers decide when to flush out the paddy fields with freshwater to ...

The rice plant health and ecosystems in the paddy fields continually improve. SRI has reached more than 16 percent of the total rice farming population in the northern region of Vietnam—home to most ...

YEN BAI (Vietnam), Dec 5 (AFP): As the morning sun finds its way through the mist over Vietnam's terraced rice fields, local farmers lead buffalo into the paddies and pass another day without ...

For example, to harvest rice, one day of work generates only 23 kg of paddy in Myanmar, compared to 62 kg in Cambodia, 429 kg in Vietnam, and 547 kg in Thailand. Farm practices are still largely labor ...

and the government of Vietnam have launched a smartphone app, which monitors the saltiness of the water. The data helps rice farmers decide when to flush out the paddy fields with freshwater to ...