Monthly Archives: September 2010

New York, USA – The number of people suffering from chronic hunger reached a record one billion globally in 2009, with Asia accounting for approximately...

Red rice, a close relative of rice, is a noxious weed that can be controlled very effectively with the Clearfield production system. (Photo: Bruce Schultz) Rice...

A farmer in Laguna Province pretests the mobile phone service to receive fertilizer recommendations. (Photo by Joseph Sandro, IRRI) After labor, fertilizer...

A pouring rainstorm does not stop Project participants of the Japan-funded Emergency Rice Project in Sierra Leone from posing with AfricaRice Deputy Director...

For thousands of years, the  indigenous tribes of the mountainous Cordillera region in the northern part of Luzon Island in the Philippines placed their...

  Farmers cultivating rice on 12 million hectares of flood-prone areas in India are planting flood-tolerant rice varieties at unprecedented rates,...