An acute shortage of agricultural labourers during the time of paddy harvesting throws a spanner in the works, putting the farmers' back-breaking efforts to ensure food security on the line.

Iseki is a Japanese agricultural machinery manufacturing company that aims to modernize Japanese agriculture. Its rice harvesting machine is the perfect example of how grain harvesting has evolved ...

It was just this July that Japan's Yanmar Agri Corporation unveiled a line of driverless agricultural tractors. Now, as part of the same Smartpilot system, the company has announced an autonomous rice ...

TIRUCHY: The application of modern technology in agriculture could be a means to address the manpower shortage in the sector but the increased use of equipment, particularly paddy harvesters, is ...

A trial dryland rice crop has just been harvested at the Katherine Research Station in the Northern Territory. Scientists there are testing 50 different varieties of dryland, or aerobic, rice to find ...