Climate change: Could rice become a viable crop for UK farmers?

A farm in the Fens has produced a crop of rice, but with rising temperatures, could it become the new normal?

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Climate change: Could rice become a viable crop for UK farmers?

The rice project, on the Taylor's family farm in the Cambridgeshire Fens, is part of a research project by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, with Dr Nadine Mitschunas leading the nurturing and final...

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