Why Indonesia’s rice paddy expansion is raising climate concerns Fieni Aprilia/IWMF/Special to The Christian Science Monitor Ahmad Darmaji, a farmer, handles rice plants in Belanti Siam, Central ...

A drone photo shows farmers harvesting rice in paddy fields at Krueng Seupeng village in Aceh Utara regency, Aceh Province, Indonesia, May 27, 2024.(Photo: Xinhua) ...

In the rice paddies of Cigugur, tucked in the shadow of West Java’s Mount Ciremai, farmers tend their crops; stalk is cut, bundled, then whipped against rocks of adequate size; grain, once ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of curious onlookers are flocking to central Indonesia to look at a “crop circle” in a rice field following rumors it was formed by a UFO.

Fri, March 31, 2017 Published on Mar. 31, 2017 Published on 2017-03-31T09:51:00+07:00 ank Indonesia (BI) projects the country will achieve rice self-sufficiency by 2020 if paddy conversion stops ...

Before the paddy art, the village’s only claim to fame was the discovery here in 1981 of the archaeological remains of 2,000-year-old rice paddies, making it one of the oldest rice-growing ...

He straddles two worlds as the owner of a car wash and the leader of a thriving but threatened rice cultivation system in the Pakerisan River’s Valley of Kings. His title is pekaseh, the elected head ...