A team of scientists has shown that rice paddies in two of China’s most important grain producing regions release soil nitrogen in strikingly different ways, and that these differences can be ...

A study in National Science Review reports that periphyton—microbial biofilms at the soil–water interface—captures 6–24% (12% on average) of fertilizer nitrogen in Chinese rice paddies. Combining a ...

The poor things can’t help it, but cows are really gassy, and that’s really bad for the planet: Microbes in their guts produce methane — a greenhouse gas up to 80 times more powerful than carbon ...

The focus on methane in the surprise climate agreement China announced with the United States during the COP26 conference on Wednesday is a sign the country is committed to curbing emissions of the ...

The FAO-China-Uganda South-South Cooperation project was launched in Uganda in 2012, to boost agricultural productivity through the transfer of proven Chinese agricultural technologies and expertise.

Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production, farmers grow belts of slender green stalks. Before they reach several feet tall and turn golden ...