Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo in Japan have conducted a six-year field experiment using an agrivoltaics system with lowland rice growing underneath. The on-farm trial was conducted in ...

This Texas rice plant is infested with rice delphacids, a pest that decimated crops last year. An invasive insect called the rice delphacid was a major problem for some farmers in 2025. With low ...

Most farm climate pollution comes from rice and peat soils, and a new map reveals exactly where the biggest hotspots are.

A girl harvests rice in the East Khasi hills of Meghalaya in north east India. India is the world’s second leading paddy producer— responsible for 27% of global rice production and well over 145 ...

Weedy rice competes with cultivated rice for resources throughout the growing season, robbing the crop of nutrients and water. Here, researchers identify and collect weedy rice samples from a field in ...

An invasive insect called the rice delphacid was a major problem for some farmers in 2025. With low prices for their crop and ...