1. The palace in central Tokyo maintains a rice field within its grounds and the emperor takes part in a ritual planting ceremony each spring.
2. Soldiers later cornered the beast in a rice field and shot it dead.
3. Young men prefer to work in cities than toil in the field and rice farming has been shifted to elderly workers.
4. His body was found in a rice field some distance away from his father's car, where he had been left several hours earlier.
5. China has the largest field for GM rice trials, and the country's plantation technologies and management of GM rice is also world leading.
6. Chinese researchers have developed several GM rice varieties, with field trials showing boosted yields and less chemical use.
7. He said he used a stick to pick up the rice in the field.
8. She said she ran across her family's rice field ahead of the wall of mud and boulders.