NOBEOKA, Miyazaki Prefecture--Robotics took over the task of growing rice plants in a paddy here ... ensuring an almost comparable level of harvest. The work was undertaken by Kyoto-based ...

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No one anticipated that an initiative to save groundwater by delaying the annual rice season would aggravate northern India’s ...

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 ...