SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — The Israeli drip irrigation company Netafim announced Friday its first carbon credit initiative for global rice growers at the UN COP27 climate conference taking place this ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world with rice for generations but cause a ...

Ben-Gurion University is joining with drip-irrigation pioneer Netafim to help increase the output of rice in parched California. In a gala announcement at the annual policy conference of the American ...

Scented (Basmati) rice, a unique product of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, is known for its aromatic quality and high economic value. It generates about three times higher prices than coarse rice.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) ROEI YONAI, NETAFIM HEAD OF STRATEGIC CROPS:"Producing one kilo of rice need 5,000 litters of water. By using drip irrigation to grow rice, you can save 70 percent of the water, ...

Rice is the staple food for more than half the global population, but its cultivation uses 30-40% of the world’s freshwater and is responsible for 10% of manmade emissions of greenhouse gas methane, ...

People play in the mud as they plant rice saplings during National Paddy Day also called Asar Pandra, that marks the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields as monsoon season arrives, in ...