A recently published article in the journal Weed Science demonstrates just how devastating Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) can be for furrow-irrigated rice production, even in small amounts. The ...
In the face of growing pressure on one of Asia's most important food production systems, experts are warning that farmers must get more help to make them more efficient. Irrigated rice production ...
The Ministry of Primary Resources and Tourism (MPRT), through the Department of Agriculture and Agrifood, continues to implement various initiatives to progressively increase the country's ...
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers are steadily improving water conservation tactics. They can now grow rice with about half the irrigation water used in levee rice systems. Chris ...
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in rice cultivation could be as simple as recycling irrigation water. A new frontier of study in greenhouse gas emissions is in furrow-irrigated rice with a novel ...
A single Palmer amaranth plant emerging within three to four weeks after in-furrow rice emergence can negatively impact rice yield within 13 square feet of the weed. A recently published article in ...
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. inspected on Monday the two solar-powered irrigation projects of the National Irrigation ...
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Diesel crisis disrupts irrigation in northern Bangladesh

, March 29 -- Diesel shortage in Bangladesh's northern districts is disrupting irrigation at a critical stage of the Boro season, raising fears of a drop in rice production and deepening anxiety among ...