Heritage conservation is an important recurring research theme on agricultural heritage systems. Improving the income of farmers from agriculture is regarded as an effective conservation approach. This study examined how the improved rice-fish-duck coculture (IRFDC) promotes the protection of the Honghe Hani Rice Terraced System (HHRTS) by keeping farmers farming in their hometowns. A semi-stru...

Cost-effective and scalable preparation of two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has been the bottleneck that limits their applications. This paper reports a novel coupled ultrasonication-milling (CUM) process to exfoliate natural molybdenite powders to achieve few-layer MoS2 (FL-MoS2) nanosheets in the solvent of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) molecules...

A primary goal of managing invasive aquatic plants is to selectively control the target plant without impacting more desirable plant species. A native plant of concern is wild rice ( Zizania palustris L.). Wild rice provides habitat for fish and wildlife, is a food source for waterfowl, and is utilized by humans as a cereal grain. The objective of this study was to examine the sensitivity of th...

Blackbirds cause locally serious losses to rice. The Denver Wildlife Research Center, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Rice Research Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center have been cooperating in tests to determine the efficacy of methiocarb seed treatments for protecting sprouting rice in Louisiana from blackbird damage. Results from four field tests (1980, 1982, 1983...

Recent studies have revealed that not only fish but also rice consumption may significantly contribute to human exposure to mercury (Hg) in Asian countries. It is therefore essential to assess dietary exposure to Hg in rice and its associated health risk. However, risk assessments of Hg in rice in non-contaminated areas are generally lacking in Asian countries. In the present study, Hg concentr...

Given the low access that women in rural Bangladesh have to productive assets, their crucial role as caretakers, and their high vulnerability to micronutrient deficiencies, numerous NGOs target women for food-based income-generating activities. Three such programs were examined. The programs promote adoption of polyculture fish production (two sites) and commercial vegetable production (one sit...

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has published the Rice Bibliography (RB) since 1963. IRRI had the Japan Library Office, which compiled the 1990-2000 Bibliography of Japanese Rice Research (BJRR) with the aims to provide more efficient information retrieval and bibliometrics in a specific-subject bibliographic database. We investigated the characteristics of Japanese rice resear...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to investigate if food intake (dairy, snacks, caloric beverages, bread, cheese, margarine/butter, potato/rice/pasta/grains, red meat, fish and fruit/berries/vegetables) is associated with gestational weight gain (GWG) in Swedish women. METHODS Four day food records from 95 pregnant Swedish women were collected in the last trimester. GWG was calculate...

Emerging data indicate that rice consumption may lead to potentially harmful arsenic exposure. However, few human data are available, and virtually none exist for vulnerable periods such as pregnancy. Here we document a positive association between rice consumption and urinary arsenic excretion, a biomarker of recent arsenic exposure, in 229 pregnant women. At a 6-mo prenatal visit, we collecte...