Chinese scientists have grown rice in greenhouses in the deserts of its Xinjiang region, in half the time as it takes to grow the variety elsewhere Country is looking for new areas to cultivate ...

"Traditionally, increasing grain output has relied on expanding arable land and improving yields. However, potato rice ...

BEIJING -- China plans to expand its ratoon rice cultivation area by approximately 10 million mu (about 666,666 hectares) by 2030, as part of efforts to bolster food security, according to the ...

Growing wealth in China is prompting increased demand for food resources. In 2011, China became a net importer of rice, and the gap between exports and imports has been widening in recent years.

Biosafety certificates for genetically modified (GM) rice and maize issued by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture late last year have prompted a protest from over a hundred intellectuals and ...

The 20,000-ariary banknote of Madagascar features a golden ear of hybrid rice, a symbol of agricultural partnership between China and Africa. Since 2007, China has been sending agricultural experts to ...

When research subjects were asked to draw diagrams depicting their social networks, people from rice-growing and wheat-growing regions tended to respond differently: Those from rice areas drew ...