"Why would they call the army to plant the rice crop - they've never done that before - if things are going well?"

Falling water levels will soon threaten rice crops as well, they said.

Officials estimate that the state has lost around $150.7 million in failed rice crops alone.

"I'm sorry," she murmured, although the rice crop was the last thing on her mind.

Yet the major income of the local people is from agriculture, especially rice crops.

People began living and planting rice crops on that ground.

About half the $1.9 billion American rice crop is exported.

It was the location of the first commercial rice crop in the Murray valley.

To the present time, the season for gathering rice crop is mostly in October.

In the meantime I'm studying ways to improve the rice crop.