Millennia later, the once prosperous Jijiaocheng, which is located in modern-day Lixian county, Changde, Hunan province, came ...

"The clearly revealed fields and ditches show that the ancestors' rice production ... of early paddy fields," said Li Yiyuan, a researcher with the institute. Follow China.org.cn on Twitter ...

CHANGSHA -- Paddy-field remains dating back over 8,000 years have been discovered in Central China's Hunan province ... evidence for the origin of rice farming and early rice cultivation behavior ...

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Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much less methane, a potent ...

The emissions come from soil microbes in the flooded paddy fields where rice is grown ... Over two years of field trials in China, the new strain produced crop yields of more than 8 tonnes ...

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Researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have bred a new strain of rice that could decrease emissions from paddy fields by nearly 70 percent.

Aerial view of Yuanyang Terraced Fields,Yunnan,China. Yuanyang Terrace is located in Yunnan Province, China. It has a history of more than 1300 years. In 2013 it was listed as a World Heritage project ...