It looks like rice's own defense, but this fungal trick turns a lifesaving response into a crop-killing weapon

For about half the global population, rice is the staple food. Yet every year, a fungal disease—rice blast—destroys harvests ...
Magnolia Reporter

With planting nearly complete, Arkansas rice faces a challenging spring

Rice planting in Arkansas, which provides about half of the country’s total crop, is always a weather-dependent process.

Rice feeds billions of people—but its role in fueling climate change is growing

Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it ...
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From plows to pixels: comprehensive rice mapping with satellite technology

Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF) classifiers with matched features produced more complete paddy rice mapping results than those with unmatched features, reducing misclassifications ...
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State agencies introduce new rice varieties and technology to reduce the gap in rice production

Government agencies have begun introducing new rice varieties and climate-smart technology to reduce the shortage of rice in Kenya which stands at 600,000 metric tons annually. According to the ...