Ancient China’s main rivers ran west to east, and Yang wanted to break this grip of geography. He needed a way to move rice from the fertile region around the Yangtze northwest to feed his court ...

Terraced rice paddies, masterpieces of ancient engineering, have existed in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere for as long as two millennia. You don't have to be an expert to know that the ...

Packed with nutrients, this variant owes its purple colour to a pigment called anthocyanin, which has potent antioxidant ...

Its domestication evolved in India and China, and subsequently spread ... does not address the emerging challenges. Rice talks about it as an ancient crop, and focuses on the changes it has ...