Monthly Archives: April 2015

India has come a long way in the past 5 decades from a country with a severe food deficit to being a major grain exporter. The frequent food shortages...

About a third of the world’s rice is produced and consumed in South Asia. By 2035, about 194 million tons (source: IRRI Global Rice Model [2014]) of...

RICE IS the most important staple in Sierra Leone, and Liberia, however, the Ebola crisis threatens to undo the progress made in improving domestic production....

(Photo: Adriana Varón Molina) There is one occasion that Brazilian farmer Geovano Parcianello never misses. Every year, he travels 503 kilometers from...

In India, rice has been grown since time immemorial. Here, the rice grain has always been considered sacred. The spirit of the Divine is believed to reside...

  Oh! The horrid global warming Life on earth is no more charming All across, there’s climate change Nature spewing forth, all its rage Mother...

(Photo: R Raman, AFRICARICE) With increasing urbanization, the demand for convenience foods such as rice preparations is rising in Africa. Tasty and innovative...

DR. RAMAIAH confers with Arnaud Gouda, a research technician in the AfricaRice Biotechnology Laboratory, where they are “mining” for alleles...

(Photos: Gene Hettel) The legendary Ebrahimali Abubacker Siddiq, 78, began his long and enduring rice research career in 1968 as a cytogeneticist at the...

INDIA, BANGLADESH, Nepal, and IRRI seal the deal. From left, S.M. Nazmul Islam, Bangladesh; Robert Zeigler, IRRI director general; Jaya Mukunda Khanal,...