Marie HEUCLIN AFP Wearing large rubber boots, Nadine Mitschunas joyfully handled mature rice plants peeking through the water of her small plot growing in the fertile soil of
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Elizabeth Mills, Writer, Forum Stories Who doesn’t eat rice? And that’s fundamentally the challenge. A staple foodstuff for more than half of the world’s population and an
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The study by Bangladesh Agricultural University shows that saturated irrigation (without ponding) and controlled percolation can cut water use and nutrient losses in rice fields