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 ...

China. The sudden collapse caused him to fall from a height of 6.5 ft (2m), with water surging into a nearby rice paddy. Footage shows the powerful flow overwhelming the field, leaving the elderly ...

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

But there’s a catch. Requiring waterlogged paddy fields to grow, rice is an extraordinarily thirsty crop. With the advance of climate change, extreme events such as droughts and flooding are ...

The Minister also noted that the Red rice growing paddy fields are more in the southern and eastern districts ... The emerging Hongjia Grain Machinery Company of China carries on its website a “Rice ...

Previous research had suggested that paddy-field soil might contain nitrogen-fixing microbes that can provide rice plants with additional nutrients to support their growth, Shida says.

"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 ...