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Norwich company will help solve world hunger by growing rice on ocean surfaces

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‘Ending world hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture’ is the second goal of the United Nations. And it’s a problem that a company based in Norwich Research Park can certainly help solve by growing rice on the surface of the ocean. Alora aims to create the world’s first ocean farming … Read more

In Vietnam, farmers are reducing methane emissions by changing the way they grow rice

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LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that sets the rice fields of 60-year-old Vo Van Van apart from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields in Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It is not complete flooded. That and the giant drone, with a wingspan resembling that of an … Read more