Groundbreaking for the Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center is happening this morning in Harrisburg. Maddie Sexton looks at the impact the new center will have on Region 8.
A groundbreaking ceremony today will usher in a new land-grant research and extension center to serve the unique needs of rice growers in northeast Arkansas.
On a tiny sliver land in southern India, the future of an ancient grain that helps combat climate is in doubt. An ongoing tussle in Chellanam village, a suburb of the bustling city of Kochi, which has the Arabian Sea on one side and estuaries on the other, could decide the fate of the cultivation of pokkali rice.