Monthly Archives: January 2014

Vietnam turns back a tsunami of pesticides Modernizing Asian rice production Banking on Africa’s rice potential Rice self-sufficiency: A question...

Farmers also check the taste when choosing their preferred salinity-tolerant variety. (Photo: Romeo Labios) Soe Moe Kyaw’s family was fishing in a different...

Under the “Mansholt Plan” for rice in Asia, governments are urged to expand farm size, promote mechanization, and improve yields and farm efficiencies to...

President U Thein Sein (right), with key government officials, came to IRRI in December 2013 to strengthen research ties with the Institute, here represented...

The air pressure from the ventilators holds up the polyethylene plastic sheet over the rice grains. (Photo: Ana Salvatierra) In typical Philippine villages,...

How will we create a better life and a better future for rice? How can we do much more, with less? ...

(Photo: Gene Hettel) For more than 25 years, Kong Luen “K.L.” Heong worked at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as an entomologist,...

(Photo: Ho Van Chien) For years, the entomologists at Vietnam’s Southern Regional Plant Protection Center in Long Dinh had tried to sell rice farmers...

A GPS-guided field canopy sensor system mounted on a spray boom is used to measure some physical traits of rice plants. (Photo: IRRI) Since the first type...

The International Rice Congress is the largest gathering of rice scientists and experts who come from all over the world to share their latest research...