AGRONOMY AND Water Harvesting
An improved rice parboiling system – called GEM – combined with targeted training and the adoption of an innovation platform approach along the rice value chain, is starting to make a difference in the lives of more than 450 women rice parboilers in the Glazoué rice hub in central Benin.
Weather has caused planting delays in the southern states and while the price hike is limited to the US, experts wonder if parts of Asia will be next.
Waiting in the wings are an estimated 4 million to 6 million migratory birds that winter in the Central Valley each year.
In simple words, growing rice plant as irrigated crop like cultivating maize and wheat in aerobic condition, where oxygen is plenty in soil.
Instead of growing rice in the familiar paddies, they are conducting a three-year study in growing it just as you’d raise wheat or eggplant or apples: that is, on dry land.
With drought conditions in California and the uncertain impacts of climate change, scientist Michael Schläppi has been trying to grow the water-intensive crop in a Wisconsin lab and field.
Delayed planting and poor rainfall distribution can play a spoiler in production of rice for 2015-16 even if acreage in Kharif, the main season for the cereal, continues to edge up than last year with 86 per cent of sowing completed.
The ‘Rice husks to power project’ is being implemented in Nyagatare District to produce green energy.
Preparing rice in a coffee machine can halve levels of the naturally occurring substance.
Farmers in Ben Tre Province’s My Trung Village built an embankment to regulate water in their waterlogged rice fields.
