Previous research had suggested that paddy-field soil might contain nitrogen-fixing microbes that can provide rice plants with additional nutrients to support their growth, Shida says.

According to MS Bhullar, director, extension and education, PAU, this is called aerobic cultivation where roots are not ...

Tobacco plants absorb a lot of nutrients from the soil, hindering its fertility, and hampers production of other crops including paddy and vegetables, he said, adding that it takes at least seven ...

“We wanted to analyse the long-term, deep data for paddy fields so we could assess the effect of climate change and management on rice crop yield and soil,” he says. The next step was to ...