Project by Singapore lab to cultivate rice sustainably wins WEF award


A worker in Coimbatore, India, collects methane emissions for a number of rice varieties during the trials in December 2024. - TEMASEK LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY

SINGAPORE: To mitigate the effects of rice cultivation on climate change and meet rising demand for rice, researchers in Singapore have come up with a way to grow it more sustainably.

An initiative by Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) called Decarbonising Rice aims to reduce methane emissions, conserve water and increase rice yields.

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