a popular rice variety grown on more than 60 percent of the prefecture’s rice fields, the figure fell 76.6 percentage points to 3.6 percent. Rice production in the prefecture suffered 13.5 ...

Every day, 98-year-old Melencio Maniego walks the narrow earthen banks between his 16-hectare rice fields to inspect his crops. “I’ve planted Chinese hybrid rice for over a decade,” the ...