Rice guy.
Fieldwork Mischa Berlinski Picador, $14, 368 pp. Rice would appear to be an innocuous food, fluffy and colorless, with a taste that does not exactly overwhelm. But readers who've finished Mischa Berlinski's canny, diverting first novel, Fieldwork, may feel differently about this form...

Biological control of rice blast (Magnaporthe oryzae) by use of Streptomyces sindeneusis isolate 263 in greenhouse.
INTRODUCTION Streptomyces are one of the most attractive sources of biologically active substances such as vitamins, alkaloids, plant growth factors, enzymes and enzyme inhibitors (1-3). Soil Streptomycetes are of the major contributors to the biological buffering of soils and have roles in decomposition of organic matter conductive...

Perceptions of paddy farmers towards sustainable agricultural technologies: case of Haraz catchments area in Mazandaran province of Iran.
INTRODUCTION Rice is the world's most important food crop and a primary source of food for more than half of the world's population (18). In Iran, rice is, after wheat, the second major food staff for people. Major advances have occurred in the food production...

Pichay: New rice farming method to double yield.
IRIGA CITY, Camarines Sur -- Team Unity senatorial bet Rep. Prospero Pichay urged Bicolano farm owners and farmers yesterday to adopt the "Pichay-Salazar System of Rice Intensification" for them to achieve a harvest that is more than double their present palay yield. In rallies in various towns...

Reforming rice: Lundberg's greener farms.
Rice farming may look pretty from a distance, with its bucolic images of farmers in conical hats ankle deep in water as they cultivate green sprouts, but it has earned a bad environmental reputation because of its wasteful irrigation systems and incursions into wetlands. And the burning of rice...

Philrice working on P350-M rice R&D projects.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The Philippine Rice Research Institute (Philrice) has been working on approximately P350-million worth of rice research and development (R&D) projects including grants from Indonesia and Japan in its mandate to add value to rice farming and to aid in rice sufficiency goals. ...

The fortunes and misfortunes of women rice producers in Ndop, Cameroon and the implications for gender roles.
Abstract In most communities in Cameroon, traditional norms mandate that rural women fulfill the reproductive roles of child bearing, home management and food provision for the family. Thus, these women are unable to exercise any influential economic voice-they can hardly earn income. Cash agriculture like rice production...

Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria.
Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria, by Hyun Ok Park. Asia-Pacific series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xix, 314 pp. $84.95 US (cloth); $23.95 US (paper). Koreans from both northern and southern Korea...

The moon bear as a symbol of yama: its significance in the folklore of upland hunting in Japan.
ANIMALS are common motifs in Japanese folklore and folk religion. Of the mammals, there is a wealth of folklore concerning the fox, raccoon dog (tanuki), and wolf, for example. The fox is regarded as sacred, and is inextricably associated with inari, originally one of the deities of cereals and...

Changes in the conscious mind in applying technology for growing rice at the Chee River Basin in Northeastern of Thailand.
Abstract: A study of Local technology for rice Farming at the time of crisis of communities along the Chee river basin, which was aimed at investigating the patterns of the Local technology, that farmers used to solve the problems of growing rice when facing a crisis and conditions related...