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Rice paddies, like cows, spew methane. A new variety makes them a lot less gassy.
Rice plants are a big source of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Scientists just developed a strain that cuts ...
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Letter from Tainan: Beyond the rice paddies of Taiwan
A view of the rice paddies in central Taiwan ... Hong Kong was ceded back to China in 1999 from the UK. As a special administrative region (SAR) it will retain its political and economic system ...
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Organic farms in Yi O are bringing old rice paddies back to life
We used to grow our dinner staple in the city’s countryside, until farmers abandoned their paddies to find less back-breaking jobs with better pay. Recently though, homegrown rice has been ...
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Making the most of microbes for sustainable rice farming
“The main purpose of this research is to establish a cycle of returning what comes out of the rice paddies, back to the rice paddies,” says Yosuke Shida, a researcher at Nagaoka University of ...
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Robotics secure 80% of rice harvest in 5% of the time
NOBEOKA, Miyazaki Prefecture--Robotics took over the task of growing rice plants in a paddy here ... which is seeking ways to claw back growing tracts of abandoned farmland due to the aging ...