For much of its history, Orton was used as a rice plantation. In 2006, Clarence Jones, who was 98 at the time, talked to the StarNews about spending most of his life working on the plantation ...

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 ...

The 1936 watercolor was one of thirty created for a book called A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties. The book, based on boyhood recollections of Smith's father, outlined the history of rice ...

The Kulzes have been cultivating heirloom, organic Carolina Gold rice on a few wet acres. Bluff Plantation once encompassed 7,400 acres along this stretch of the Combahee River near Yemassee.

BEIJING -- China plans to expand its ratoon rice cultivation area by approximately 10 million mu (about 666,666 hectares) by 2030, as part of efforts to bolster food security, according to the ...