LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam’s ...

Vietnam, a major rice exporter, is aiming to transform its farming techniques by reducing its emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. Rice paddies generate methane due to flooded conditions inhibiting ...

Planting in the dark has become a saviour for countless farmers in north and central Vietnam during increasingly hot summers. Farmers plant rice in fields outside Hanoi at night as they try to beat a ...

Each day, more than half the world’s population consumes rice. In Asia alone, over 2 billion people rely on rice for 80% of their caloric intake. In the United States, rice is a small but globally ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing ...