Rice is the single-largest source of employment and income for rural people; rice fields cover 11 percent of Earth’s arable land. But rice production has a significant environmental footprint. Current ...

In Asia, for example, it provides 50 to 80 percent of people's daily caloric intake ... allows water to flow continuously down through successive rice fields (see Build a Rice Paddy).

Rice missing from a meal is almost an accusation ... Ipo, who’s been working other people’s fields since age 9, treads backward in the silky mud. It’s covered in a veneer of flies.

this was a success because we could really reach many more people.” The rice fields will be cultivated this month to try to get results of the experiment. At the very least, they are allowed to ...

For these hard working people a little bit of technology can ... One project that came up was rice field monitoring using wireless sensor networks and it caught the attention of some of the ...

The company has plans to hire 50 to 100 people and someday plant as much as 30,000 acres of rice with fields stretching all the way to Topeka. “Over the next 10 years or so, we are talking ...