The scorching heat this summer is threatening the rice crop in parts of eastern Japan and may lead to water ... In place of water-soaked rice paddies, the soil is parched and cracked.

The work is backbreaking and relentless, and in Japan and other Asian countries where farmers tend terraced paddies, it is also muddy. Paddy rice is irrigated by water diverted from rivers and ...

The location has been selected as one of the Top 100 Terraced Paddy Fields in Japan by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries as part of a drive to promote the conservation of rice ...

The craft flew over a 1000-square-meter rice paddy, scattering seeds treated beforehand ... Alarmed by the prospect of Japan’s agriculture vanishing, Takamoto decided to join hands with Nobeoka ...

Beneficial microbes in the soil of rice paddies could be key allies in a collaborative project to build a circular agricultural economy in the celebrated rice-growing region of Niigata, Japan.

“Rice farming is a fundamental part of our culture in Japan. Niigata prefecture has one of the biggest areas of paddy fields in the country.” But decades of Koshihikari rice farming in the ...

Toyota's plans to build a new technical center and test track only 30 miles from its Aichi, Japan headquarters has ... to deforest 691 acres, fill the rice paddies and flatten mountains.