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 ...

In Chilean fields, techniques are beginning to be adopted to reduce water consumption in crops by more than 50% and to grow ...

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 Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor stretches from the coast of Florida to the coast of North Carolina. Here's what you need ...

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 ...

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.

One person was killed, while 3,000 hectares of rice farmland were submerged, affecting about 5,000 farmers in an unusual ...

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

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 ...