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 ...

Rice farming, with intricate irrigation systems and tight-knit farming communities, has long been suspected of fostering collectivism. However, proving this theory requires navigating confounding ...

A rice nursery in Gakonya village in Kiharu, Murang’a where farmers have transformed the former swampy area into rice fields using irrigation water fetched from Rutune river. [Boniface Gikandi, ...

Rice farming is hard. It’s complicated. Traditional rice farming takes twice the amount of labor as crops like wheat, corn and potatoes. Paddy rice was built on irrigation networks that forced farmers ...

Christopher Oluwakunmi Akinbile receives funding from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Christopher Oluwakunmi Akinbile works at the Federal University ...

Over 100 local rice farmers have been trained on irrigation farming in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State by the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA). The programme is ...

Irrigation farming under threat Dry-season rice, wheat production Farmers who produced rice, maize, and wheat last year are currently licking their wounds following the loss of millions of naira due ...