Revolutionary farming technique may have solved one of agriculture's toughest challenges: 'A historic step towards the future'

Revolutionary farming technique may have solved one of agriculture's toughest challenges: 'A historic step towards the future'

A pioneering farming experiment in drought-stricken Chile may have just cracked one of agriculture’s biggest challenges: growing rice with less water. In a first-of-its-kind trial, researchers at Chile’s Austral University and local farmers have successfully cultivated rice using a technique called “Jaspe” straining, without flooding the fields. The Jaspe strain consists of “spacing the seedlings further apart in enriched soil, and watering only…