2007 October - Rice Today

Looking up in the uplands

A sweeping view across mountains in northern Vietnam takes in all the components of the rice landscape: upland rice planted on steep slopes, paddy rice,...

A hybrid history

A hybrid Rice yield trial in Jiangxi, China. (Photo: Rodolfo Toledo) A country that is home to around one-fifth of the entire planet’s population...

Relocating rice production in China

At time of printing, US$1 = 7.52 Chinese yuan. (Photo: IRRI) Between 1979 and 2005, rice area in China decreased from 32.4 to 28.8 million hectares. At...

High and dry

On a steaming hot Beijing day in August 2007, a group of researchers from China Agricultural University (CAU) visited their experimental station on the...

Three heads are better than one

Ren Wang (right) looks at Nerica plants with Warda field technicians Hélaine Diaka (left) and Eugenie Gbokede. (Photo: IRRI) The signs are ominous...

Where now for the global rice market?

Several factors are combining to slow the growth in demand for rice. Rapid urbanization and increases in per capita income, particularly in the middle-and...

Challenges for rice production in China

Rice is the staple food for around two-thirds of the Chinese people. China ranks first in annual total rice production (about 185 million tons) and second, after India, in annual total planting area (29 million hectares). The country produces 35% of the world’s rice with 20% of the planting area. Rice production in China has more than tripled in the past five decades...

Rice Today Vol. 6, No. 4 (October-December 2007)

Rice prices: what next? Rice with less water Vietnam and Laos:making the uplands productive Rice in China:Feeding the world’s most populous country ...

Monthly Archives: October 2007