Monthly Archives: June 2020

Despite the widespread testing and promotion, alternate wetting and drying (AWD) has not been adopted in the entire country. New research investigates...

Although the IRRI varieties with improved plant type have found acceptance over wide areas, even more important accomplishments of the institute, however,...

Teddy Cotella, a farmer in Entre Rios in Argentina, is harnessing solar energy to draw underground water to irrigate his rice crop. Although traditionally...

The Philippine Department of Agriculture will launch a program that would use satellite technology to improve crop insurance in the country. The program...

Farmers in Sherpur are profiting from their bumper harvest of Tulsimala, one of the indigenous aromatic rice varieties of Bangladesh. The traditional...

The use of furrow-irrigated has increased from about 2,000 hectares to over 4000 hectares in the past five years in the US state of Arkansas where most...

Rice farmers in Southeast Asia are hesitant to adopt the water-saving technology, alternate wetting and drying (AWD) for fear the practice will lead to...

Colombia’s National Rice Growers Federation (Fedearroz) recently launched a pilot insurance project for 100 farmers in the Meta Region, which produces...

The success of IR667-98 in Korea is an outstanding achievement. This line has now been named officially by the Koreans and is called Tongil. It has a japonica-type...

Heavy rains attributed to climate change caused floods early this year that disrupted agricultural activities and led to some crop losses in the autonomous...