Monthly Archives: October 2008

Harvesting serendipity

SRI LANKAN Farm workers prepare to plant rice on a farm in Bathalagoda. (Photo: Dilantha Gunawardana) SRI LANKAN Farm workers prepare to plant rice on...

Shaking the invisible hand

Mounds of rice at a parboiling rice mill. (Photo: Ariel Javellana) Many of Thailand’s 3.7 million rice farmers are unhappy. As the producers of the...

A flour blooms

A new rice noodle product, which won a prize in the national food contest held by the agricultural ministry in 2007. (Photo: Masaru Yamada) Yuko Kimura,...

Hainanese chicken rice

Hainanese chicken rice. (Photo: IRRI) Serves 4–6 Time: 1½ hours, plus resting A classic Singaporean/Malay dish developed by immigrants from the southern...

Rice crisis: the aftermath

Compared with the prices of other cereals such as wheat and maize, rice prices were relatively subdued for much of 2007. In late 2007, however, prices...

Simulating water stress

Relative rice yields for irrigated versus rainfed lowland (flat, flooded fields) conditions for variety IR72 computed with the ORYZA2000 simulation model....

Moving up in Ethiopia

The authors (from left to right, Dr. Zenna, Mr. Gebre-Tsadik, and Dr. Berhe) inspect rice plants in Chewaka, one of the best riceproducing areas in Ethiopia....

Can organic agriculture feed Asia?

Rising fertilizer prices and misperceptions about environmental degradation in intensive agriculture have stimulated claims that so-called “low-input” technologies relying on organic nutrient sources may provide a more sustainable means of producing food crops and increasing farmers’ income. However, the sole use of organic technologies would likely perpetuate food...

Management made easy

FARMERS IN INDONESIA mixing fertilizer (potassium chloride and urea) for application to rice at panicle-initiation stage. (Photo: Monina Escalada) The...

Rice Today Vol. 7, No. 4 (October-December 2008)

Can organic agriculture feed Asia? What next for Sri Lanka? Is intensive farming sustainable? Thai rice industry Shaking the invisible hand Rice on the...

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