click image for close-up The black worker in this picture could have been harvesting rice on Arthur Middleton's plantation, or one of many other rice plantations scattered throughout the ...

From then on, rice fell back to Earth each year in time for a bountiful harvest. Rice's evolutionary origins go far back into history, so far that scientists can only make intelligent guesses as ...

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 ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki Prefecture--The backbreaking work of sowing and harvesting rice by hand could soon fall exclusively to drones and robots under an ambitious agricultural program taking shape here.