In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice
- Van in Vietnam is using new techniques like using less water and a drone to fertilize to address the unique challenges of growing rice, which contributes significantly to methane emissions and climate change.
- The process of growing rice separately in flooded fields generates methane due to lack of oxygen, which contributes to 8% of all human-made methane emissions as reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2023.
- Van's collaboration with Loc Troi Group in Vietnam includes using alternate wetting and drying irrigation methods and stopping the burning of rice stubble to reduce air pollution.
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In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice - The Morning Sun
LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It isn’t entirely flooded. That and the giant drone, its wingspan similar to that of an eagle, chuffing high above as it rains organic fertilizer onto the knee-high rice seedlings billowing below. Using less water and using a drone to fe…
In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam aims to transform its rice sector, making it more resilient to climate change while also reducing its emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. Rice is to blame for around 8% of global methane emissions. The government aims to plant “low emission” rice in a million hectares of land, encouraging farmers to use new irrigation systems where rice f…
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In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice
Vietnam aims to transform its rice sector, making it more resilient to climate change while also reducing its emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. Rice is to blame for around 8% of global methane…
In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice
There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It isn’t entirely flooded. That and the giant drone, its wingspan similar to that of an eagle, chuffing high above as it rains organic fertilizer onto the knee-high rice seedlings billowing below. Using less water and using a drone to fertilize are new techniques…
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