NOBEOKA, Miyazaki Prefecture--Robotics took over the task of growing rice plants in a paddy here, slashing the time needed for cultivation by 95 percent while simultaneously ensuring an almost ...

Now it is the home to Andy’s Charleston Gold ... “We’re about the only ones growing rice commercially in the state anymore,” Quattlebaum said. He and his four full-time employees wrapped ...

This feat, he added, had been achieved by Pakistani exporters in spite of stiff competition with major rice growing countries, especially India, which has lifted a ban on exports of all kinds of ...