Arkansas cultivates more rice than all other U.S. states combined. Recent flooding in eastern Arkansas accounted for a slight drop in production this year, with around one million acres harvested.
The Mekong Delta, long renowned as the “rice bowl of Vietnam”, is now also home to a multi-billion-dollar shrimp industry and burgeoning numbers of farmers are building fortunes from the small crustaceans.
The new rice line can supply rice consumers with three essential micronutrients in the future.
These rice paddies are not in some Asian river delta or even the “Rice Belt” down south. They’re tucked behind a bend of a country road in Esopus.
Stakeholders say the government is ready to spend huge sums on compensations or reliefs but is not developing new seed varieties that may help farmers stand on their own feet
Rice is a hugely important part of life on the island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa. At times, it shows up for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In much of the country, it dominates the landscape, planted in small plots across millions of acres of land.
Being one of the more vulnerable counties to climate change, Vietnam’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) aim to contribute towards a zero-carbon, climate-resilient future.
The country has also been importing rice via state-to-state deals.
Wild rice requires optimal water conditions: Too much rain and deep water floods the crop; not enough rain and shallow waters can dry rice plants out.
Sofies’s Sustainable Production approach and its related toolkit has been applied to, amongst others, the Vietnamese coffee sector, the Vietnamese rice sector, and the Chinese cassava sector.
