Monthly Archives: June 2019

An engineer at Nissan has designed a floating robot to eliminate weeds and insects from rice paddy fields much like the Aigamo ducks used to do in the...

A suspected rice blast outbreak in several areas in Nigeria’s Bauchi State has been reported to have destroyed about 20 hectares of rice farms in...

More than 8,000  farmers in Tamil Nadu celebrated the contribution of Nel Jayaraman at the recent Nel Thiruvizha or Paddy Festival, one of the biggest...

Rice grains inside a solar bubble dryer. (Photo by Isagani Serrano, IRRI) . ...

Often we see research as being “research” and scaling technology as work that development organizations do. What we often fail to see is that...

The Liberian government and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization launched the Integrated Sustainable Rice System Development Project to...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called on the country’s rice farmers to use using organic techniques to meet the growing global demand for chemical-free...

The Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Center has started testing 300 new high-yielding salt-tolerant rice varieties that can be potentially...

The Philippine Government is providing small subsistence farmers with free insurance coverage for various agricultural and non-agricultural assets through...

The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have teamed up for implementation...