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Rice cultivation can aggravate global warming: study

Press Trust of India Washington

Researchers from the Trinity College Dublin, Northern Arizona University and University of California in Davis gathered all published research to date from 63 different experiments on rice paddies, mostly from Asia and North America.

"Our results show that rice agriculture becomes less climate friendly as our atmosphere continues to change. This is important, because rice paddies are one of the largest human sources of methane, and rice is the world

 

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First Published: Oct 23 2012 | 12:15 PM IST

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