Approximately 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) of rice are grown each summer in the Florida Everglades Agricultural Area, which covers an area of about 1,100 square miles (2,800 square kilometers) south of Lake Okeechobee. Farming here requires a delicate touch. The area has lost about 6 feet (1.8 meters) of soil in the last century through… Read More »
‘Ending world hunger, ensuring food security and improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture’ is the number two goal of the United Nations. A company based at Norwich Research Park is confident it can help solve this problem by growing rice on the ocean surface. Alora aims to create the world’s first ocean farming system with… Read More »
LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — One thing distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from the mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields in Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It’s not completely submerged. That, and the giant drone, whose wingspan resembles that of an eagle, buzzes from above as it rains down… Read More »