07/08/2026
🌾 Climate-Smart Rice Farming: From Innovation to Impact
A new opinion article in New Age highlights the potential of climate-smart rice farming in Bangladesh, drawing on field experience from the Nodes Digital Limited (NDL)–Rural Services Foundation (RSF) initiative.
Our field results show 25–30% lower irrigation requirement, 9–11% higher yield, and around 2 tCO₂e/ha reduction in GHG emissions—also demonstrating the potential to generate carbon credits and create an additional revenue opportunity for farmers as these practices scale.
📖 Read the article: https://www.newagebd.net/post/opinion/308874/adopting-climate-smart-rice-farming
FEW crops are as important to Bangladesh as rice. It feeds the nation, sustains millions of farming families and powers the rural economy. Nearly 12 million hectares of land are cultivated with rice every year across the country’s three growing seasons. This vast agricultural landscape also repres...