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Since 1970, 73% of global wildlife has been lost, while the world's population has doubled to 8 billion. Research shows this ...
A participatory meeting held in Hanoi on June 30 attracted numerous experts, representatives from state management agencies, research organisations, and local and international businesses. Flooded ...
The nation deserves a rice system that feeds its people, not its dysfunction” NUEVA Ecija’s scorching fields, Mang Lito, a grizzled rice farmer, tears ...
Limestone karsts jutting upward from emerald green water, ancient rivers that snake through dense mangrove forests, misty ...
Pure wild rice fields, which totalled just 33 hectares in 2015, have continued to shrink. “Wild rice is now scattered across many areas rather than concentrated in one place,” says Đoàn Văn Nhanh, ...
Thousands of years later, the agricultural method continues to predominate in rice cultivation practices from the low-lying fields of Arkansas to the sprawling terraces of Vietnam.
Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden.
With rice being a staple food for over 1.4 billion citizens, China dedicates significant agricultural land to paddy fields, particularly in regions such as Jiangsu, Hunan, and Guangdong.
In the Mekong Delta, the main rice-producing region in Vietnam, around 29 million tonnes of rice straw are produced annually, with over 80 per cent burned on the fields after harvest—a quick but ...
In Vietnam, rice is one of the main agricultural products and a vital export commodity. Vietnam benefits from a climate well-suited for rice cultivation and vast paddy fields, primarily located in ...
LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern ...
A worker surveys Vo Van Van’s rice fields after spraying fertilizer over the fields using a drone in Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.