Author Archives: Rice Today

The exploitation of microbes plays an important role in mitigating the effect of environmental stresses and pests and enhancing yields in stress-tolerant...

The Mindanao Development Authority and the Cotabato provincial government will launch the Quick Turn-Around Plan to produce additional rice to prevent...

The Agriculture Ministry of Fiji has pledged to boost collaboration and assistance towards strengthening the country’s rice industry. The Ministry’s...

Young agri-entrepreneurs are driving the agriculture sector across the African continent. The new generation of tech-savvy farmers are not only using social...

Under its agricultural restructuring program, the Vietnamese province of Bình Thuận encourages rice farmers in drought-prone areas to rotate rice cultivation...

Liberia’s Ministry of Finance and Development Planning and Agriculture Ministry signed a Cash Collateral Guarantee agreement with the Afriland Bank...

The most significant achievement of the year was the thorough testing and the eventual naming of a rice variety by the Institute. From mid-1965 through...

Cycling rice and shrimp cultivation is a viable, reversible option for Vietnamese rice farmers in the coastal Mekong Delta affected by climate change,...

Thousands of rice landraces have disappeared due to the monoculture of high-yielding rice varieties. Geographic Indication (GI) tagging, a legal system...

Many scientific studies have confirmed that rice production is adversely affected by the impacts of climate change. For example, rising temperatures could...