Monthly Archives: July 2009

Ecosystem services for biological control in tropical rice

Rice is produced in landscapes that range from extreme monocultures to highly diverse areas. Tropical rice fields often have a great diversity of naturally...

Overcoming the toughest stress in rice: Drought

Drought brings to mind negative images of wide expanses of dry and parched lands. It is often associated with abject poverty, distraught farmers, hungry...

A look at India

(Photo: IRRI) “Rice is life” truly lives up to its meaning in India, where its origin dates back to as long ago as 2500 B.C. In this vast country,...

The promise of Latin America

Mr. Zwinger (7th from left) with some of the Rice Americas 2009 Conference participants. (Photo: V. Subramanian) The Rice Trader Rice Americas 2009 Conference...

Challenges for IRRI: a cross-section of opinions

Randy Barker, IRRI agricultural economist and head, Economics Department, 1966-78; acting head, Social Sciences Division, 2007-08 When I first came to IRRI in 1966 just before IR8, people at that time looked at IRRI and said, “that’s a nice set of buildings,” but they didn’t think the Institute would ever produce anything. There was a real skepticism about whether...

Every drop counts

Farmers must make sure that the bunds are well compacted to limit water loss. (Photo: Bas Bouman) Water makes up 70% of our planet. But in spite of...

Uganda’s rice revolution

Compared with other West African countries such as Mali and Senegal, which have been growing rice for centuries, Uganda is just “a new kid on the...

Working together to save grains

A low-cost, farm-level dryer is tested at a farmer’s house in Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR. (Photo: IRRI)  Even though rice prices have come down...

Making rice less thirsty

(Photo: IRRI) Since the dawn of agriculture, drought has been the bane of farmers, especially  who grow rice, a crop that has special water requirements....

Rice Today Vol. 8, No. 3 (July-September 2009)

Making rice less thirsty: Overcoming the toughest stress Saving water with new technologies The promise of Latin America Uganda’s rice revolution Challenges...

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