Monthly Archives: July 2014

Rice is the most important staple food for more than half the planet’s population, particularly for the poor of Asia. World rice yield, herein called...

Hon. Cynthia A. Villar, chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, supports research on healthier rice. (IRRI Headquarters, 23 July 2014) LOS...

Rice Today has come a long way since its first issue in 2002, when its editorial contents were almost all coming from the International Rice Research...

(Photo: IRRI) The global rice market has been quite uneventful in the past several months. The news of possible monsoon failure in India and Southeast...

In the wake of the world food price crisis of 2007-08, the consensus view is that, because of several trends (climate change, biofuels, scarcity of land...

Illustrated by Hanna Joy Malabanan A long, long time ago, during the Qin Dynasty in China, there was a boy named Hán Xìn (Han-Shin). He was born in a...

(Photo: Isagani Serrano) Nasi kuning (yellow rice) is a traditional Indonesian rice dish cooked with coconut milk and turmeric that is usually eaten during...

MAP OF central Benin showing the assessed inland valley areas (red) and the digitized inland valley sections (bluish black) from the IMPETUS database superimposed...

IMPROVED RICE lines ready for transplanting in Peru. (Photo: CIAT) They’re not the biggest rice producers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). But,...

(Photo: Finbarr Horgan, IRRI) Apple snails (Pomacea spp.) have been a problem for Asian rice farmers for decades. First introduced in the late 1980s to...