Those allowances – from the King of England until 1776 and then Georgia’s governors after the American Colonies declared their independence – enabled the establishment of rice plantations ...

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 ...

Edward died in 1685, leaving to Sara and their young son, Arthur, a plantation that was not yet profitable. In the following decade, Africans would show English colonists how to cultivate rice in ...

Mr Adamu-Saba said the disaster was caused by the opening of the dams in Jebba and Kanji, two of Nigeria's hydroelectric ...

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.

A yet to be identified group of herdsmen with a large number of cows have allegedly invaded and destroyed a five-hectare rice plantation belonging to one Okegbenro Julius, in Ilupeju Ibaro Village ...

A member of the House of Representatives from Kwara State, Dr. Ahmed Saba, says about 5,000 hectares of rice plantations, worth N11.5bn, were devastated by the recent flooding at Shonga ...

Kwara State Government delegation on Sunday visited Shonga in Edu Local Government Area of the state to establish the causes ...