Author Archives: Veronica Mae Escarez

While most breeding efforts are focused on producing improved rice varieties, farmers in sub-Saharan Africa continue to use old varieties that are susceptible...

  Rice production in Asia and Africa has faced labor shortages and climate change issues such as unanticipated droughts and floods, causing unstable...

SpeedFlower for indica and japonica rice offers a promising solution for addressing the limitations of longer generation times and seasonal constraints....

CGIAR has launched a major new crop-focused global breeding research program that brings together its rice breeding Centers and national partners to accelerate...

Klaus J. Lampe, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI, 1988-95), passed away peacefully on 6 February in his native Germany....

The Bihar State Government is aware of the risks associated with increasing agricultural burning, but the current extent of the practice and plausible...

BASF and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have entered into a scientific collaboration to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rice...

Around 80% of India’s rice production is from the eastern Indian states of Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Assam....

Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute and IRRI launched a project promoting the cultivation of drought-tolerant rice to support the country’s...

Researchers at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute are developing rice varieties resistant to blast diseases. Because there are no resistant rice varieties...