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 ...

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

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 ...

Rice fields and terraces have been ... green fields and terrace farms in Asia where paddy is grown. Mae Jam, Thailand Bali, Indonesia Yuanyang, China Mù Cang Chải, Vietnam Maruyama Senmaida ...

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 ...

"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 ...