A two-acre paddy field in northern Thailand has been transformed into an artwork depicting a dragon and a cat, symbols of hope and resilience as the community recovers from floods. Rice fields ...

but it finds its way into rice because rice is grown in flooded paddy fields that use a lot of irrigation water. Irrigation water is often polluted with pesticides, preservatives, fertilizers ...

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.

Rice is cultivated all over the world in fields known as rice paddies and it is one of the most maintenance intensive crops to grow. The rice paddy itself requires a large part of that maintenance.

In Kedah, Malaysia's rice bowl, paddy fields unfurl as far as the eye can see. Farmers roam the sticky clay-like soil, diligently following the rhythms of sunrise, sunset and monsoon as they have ...

OSHU, Iwate Prefecture—Residents here created a field of dreams for hometown hero Shohei Ohtani. A 1,000-square-meter rice paddy field shows Ohtani wearing Japan’s national team uniform ...

State granary reserves of rice, including unmilled paddy, totalled 67.6 million tons as of Feb. 1, compared to the government's target of 7.6 million tons, data compiled by the Food Corporation of ...