RICHVALE — After many rain delays during the normal planting season, rice growers in the Northern Sacramento Valley are seeing the first of green sprouts above the water line in rice-growing land.

Nepalese Rice Farmers Boost Yields By Sowing Fewer Plants And Cutting Water : The Salt As the climate gets drier, researchers are looking again at an alternative method to grow rice — a crop ...

That's more rice than most commercial US growers harvest in their yields (which usually range between 7,200-7,600 pounds per acre.). Growing rice in saltwater would also free up stretches of soil ...

Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again : Short Wave Rice is arguably the world's most important staple crop. About half of the global population depends on it for sustenance.