Monthly Archives: January 2014

Si Manansala at Ang Masaganang Ani For more than 50 years, staff and guests of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have had the pleasure of...

PAPA SECK (third from left) has helped smallholder farmers gain access to improved technologies. (Photo: R. Raman, AfricaRice) The winds of change that...

Today, the world’s population is growing faster than ever before and humankind faces an enormous task of producing enough food for all. ...

Mana filled with freshly harvested Swarna-Sub1. (Photo: Debdutt Behura) Swarna-Sub1 is the flood-tolerant version of the popular mega-variety Swarna (MTU...

Southeast Asia is the hub of the world’s rice economy. As a region, it has been a net exporter of rice for most of the past 110 years (the exception...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has declared 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF). The International...

(Photo: FLAR) Masato de arroz or fresh rice beverage is a creamy, refreshing beverage enjoyed throughout Latin America. The drink originated on the eastern...

Once upon a time, about 1,700 years ago, there was a girl named Shimchung. Unfortunately, her mother passed away while giving birth to her. Shimchung’s...

Rice classification of rice (green) and late rice (orange) superimposed on a Google Earth image. The green dots are field verification points of rice. Remote...

(Photo: R Raman, AfricaRice) The 3rd Africa Rice Congress, held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in October 2013, emphasized the need to invest in the modernization...