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A promising new way to grow rice
Feb 21, 2012
Part of the Food for the Future initiative is providing a plentiful, healthy food supply for all, and this story focuses on “helping produce more food for a hungry world.”
From CAFNRnews
Despite being battered by the remnants of Hurricane Ike, an experiment to grow rice under center-pivot sprinkler irrigation yielded as much or more of the grain as conventional methods. This new technique may allow farmers to produce the crop in areas where it cannot be grown now, helping produce more food for a hungry world.
Gene Stevens, an extension associate professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, is using a staple of Midwestern farms, center-pivot irrigation, to develop a new way of growing rice. More…