Vietnam is the world's third-largest rice exporter, and the staple importance ... This requires less water than traditional farming since his paddy fields aren’t continuously submerged.

Rice importers in the Philippines have delayed purchases of around 350,000 metric tons of Vietnamese rice and are in the ...

CHANGSHA -- Paddy-field remains dating back over 8,000 years have been discovered in Central China's Hunan province, according to the provincial cultural relics and archaeology research institute.

For example, to harvest rice, one day of work generates only 23 kg of paddy in Myanmar, compared to 62 kg in Cambodia, 429 kg in Vietnam, and 547 kg in Thailand. Farm practices are still largely labor ...