Monthly Archives: November 2020

The 2010 study examined the decreasing grain yield of IR8, which was the first modern rice variety of the Green Revolution, and provides strong justification...

Starting 2021, farm irrigation on the Jianan Plain in southern Taiwan will be suspended due to a pronounced dry season this year. A total of 19,000 hectares...

Rice and fish production practices can provide local food and nutrition security, income benefits, generate more revenue per hectare than rice monoculture,...

India’s agriculture ministry will hire private agencies for the second year for a pilot study of field data collection using drones in agricultural...

Researchers at the University of Queensland have discovered that rice diversity was inherited through only two maternal genomes identified in all rice...

Empowering women farmers has been linked to gaining food security, decreasing poverty, and fighting climate change. Given the same education and training...

Reden Mark Costales has become an internet influencer who encourages Filipinos to go into agriculture through his social media platform, The Agrillenial. In...

In the 1950s, Asia is on the brink of famine. Food is scarce and millions of people are in danger of suffering from starvation. So, in 1960, IRRI was established...

Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia with Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) tackled many serious challenges to agriculture by conducting adaptive research...

The CGIAR study showed striking increases in rice production as a result of the collaboration between IRRI and national agricultural systems. Farmers grow...