Farmer, service provider, manufacturer, extension worker: Four perspectives on rice seeders and IPM in Cambodia
Women of scientific substance: Giovanna Müller
In retrospect: IRRI Annual Report 1993-1994
Crop nutrient management using Nutrient Expert improves yield, increases farmers’ income, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions
Women of scientific substance: Marie-Noelle Ndjiondjop
Crop diversification in rice-based systems in the polders of Bangladesh: Yield stability, profitability, and associated risk
Nutrient Expert (NE) tool-based site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) in rice and wheat crops can lower global warming potential by about 2.5% in rice and between 12% and 20% in wheat over farmers’ fertilization practice. More than 80% of the participating farmers increased their crop yield and farm...
Global chronic hunger has declined faster than hidden hunger thanks to large-scale food security programs around the world. This is a testament to the power of development-driven research, unwavering level of commitment, science-based foresight, and global cooperation and investment. While there is still a need to eradicate chronic hunger in many areas, renewed investment efforts on nutrition-driven...
Farmers, extension professionals, the private sector, and other stakeholders are uniquely impacted by agricultural innovation. The following are accounts of their experiences in implementing mechanized seeders in the field, applying IPM, and lessons learned along the pathway toward sustainability. Mr. Sokunroth (second from left), an IPM focal point and extension officer at PDAFF, helps farmers identify...
IRRI is establishing a rice learning center in Los Baños, Philippines. In this center, the different rice-growing ecosystems, their history, their potential for the future, the research needed to make them productive and sustainable, and IRRI’s contribution, will be described. By doing this, we want to contribute to the preservation of the most important cultures related to rice. ...
The people of the Philippine Cordillera Region are so devoted to rice that they carved terraces out of the slopes of the imposing mountain range to provide their crops a place to grow. One could say their culture is composed of the terraces, the rice farmers, their traditional farming methods, and their heirloom rice. These are so closely intertwined that removing one would cause this delicate tapestry...
