Monthly Archives: July 2010

In the mid-1990s, Dr. Jackson shows IRRI’s genebank facilities to Nong Duc Manh, then Vietnam National Assembly chairman. (IRRI Archive) Birds, maps,...

Wild food plants such as the water lily abound in northeast Thailand. (Photo: Gisella Cruz García)  Rice fields are important for both rice production...

Small-scale water harvesting and storage facilities capture excess rainwater during the period of high precipitation and supplements irrigation for dry...

A sea of newly harvested rice extends to the horizon in Battambang Province—the rice bowl of Cambodia. It was only the third week of February, just...

Almost 40% of the world’s harvested rice area is in South Asia―home to 1.1 billion people (74% of the population) that survive on less than US$2.00...

Machines of progress: Cambodia adopts postharvest technologies Water harvesting in Latin America California deals with climate change Africa’s...

Early this year, RDA Administrator Dr. Jae-Soo Kim and IRRI Director General Dr. Robert Zeigler signed a Memorandum of Agreement on the two institutions’...

The combine harvester, an iconic image of farming in progressive countries, is now a normal scene in Cambodia. In his Grain of Truth article, Buresh explains...

The 2008 rice crisis seems to be a distant memory now, with rice prices slipping back to the precrisis level. In the last few months, global rice prices...

Farmers in the “texting capital” of the world—the Philippines—will soon have nutrient management advice tailored specifically to their rice crops...