Monthly Archives: September 2020

Beginning in 2021, Taiwan will ban rice imports containing Taiwanese rice varieties such as Tainan No. 11. Tainan No. 11 is local rice that has never...

The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) has launched a new ecolabel that will help shoppers choose rice that has been sustainably produced. The “SRP-Verified”...

The “Plan for IRRI’s Third Decade” was completed during 1982 based on priorities suggested by the Board of Trustees and the Second Quinquennial...

A recent study concluded that incentivizing farmers in general—and female farmers in particular—can serve as a potential means to adopt agricultural...

 A team of scientists under the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Japan has developed a new salt-tolerant rice variety to help...

The Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario and the United States Department of Agriculture have approved a bacterial blight-resistant rice variety developed...

IRRI often gets the comment that the modern IR rices are suited only to well-irrigated fields and have little impact elsewhere.  What about the farmers...

A pilot project has transformed unused agricultural lands in Kiuti County into productive rice areas through the use of drought-tolerant rice varieties...

The perching and light trap method, which allows birds to perch and eat harmful pests of rice plants, is becoming more popular among farmers in Rangpur’s...

A medical doctor who is also a farmer not only adopted the laser land leveling technology but piloted a service provision model for it—a first of...