India – ‘Aerobic’ rice cultivation reduces water usage
In simple words, growing rice plant as irrigated crop like cultivating maize and wheat in aerobic condition, where oxygen is plenty in soil.
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In simple words, growing rice plant as irrigated crop like cultivating maize and wheat in aerobic condition, where oxygen is plenty in soil.
As the world’s seventh largest country and one of its leading growing economies, India faces major challenges when it comes to meeting the energy needs of more than one billion people.
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.
India is estimated to have produced over 102 million tonnes of rice in 2014-15 crop year (July-June).
One Chinese lie has been finally nailed this time by a team of Indian scientists who provide irrefutable evidence that rice did originate in India, a fact contested by China.
With the monsoon once again threatening to turn erratic and scanty, one of Bihar’s two chief scientists for rice advises farmers ‘to grow paddy as if it were wheat.’
Black rice, a heritage variety of Bengal rice, is known for its high amount of antioxidants that prevent cancer.
India currently has 44 million hectare (ha) area in rice cultivation, and there was no increase in the area since the last 15 years.
Research scientists are coming to the aid of 300 million people along the River Ganges who face a hungry future because their staple rice crop is threatened by climate change.
An Indian student with a farming background finds a green alternative to burning tons of rice husks and straw by using the waste as housebuilding material.