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 ...

The ratoon rice crop could be a near-total loss in Texas and Louisiana after the wrath of Hurricane Harvey subsides. The vast majority of Gulf Coast rice was harvested before the arrival of Harvey ...

known as the ratoon, had started to emerge. “These fields are just like they would have been in the 17th or 18th century,” says Chalmers, 60, a fourth-generation rice farmer whose Lowcountry ...