Farmers in China, Uganda transfer to high-yielding, cost-saving perennial rice

After greater than 9,000 years in cultivation, annual paddy rice is now out there as a long-lived perennial. The development means farmers can plant simply as soon as and reap as much as eight harvests with out sacrificing yield. A brand new report chronicles agronomic, financial, and environmental outcomes of perennial rice cultivation throughout China’s Yunnan Province. Already, the retooled crop is altering the lives of greater than 55,752 smallholder farmers in southern China and Uganda.