Author Archives: Keiichi Hayashi

As climate patterns become more unpredictable, rice farmers are relying on a modern way of to forecast the monsoon rains. ...

Growing dry-season crops after rice on hard-setting soils can pose serious challenges to Cambodian farmers seeking to diversify and intensify with greater...

A decade of research demonstrates that “citizen science” has a major role to play in curbing ecosystem threats to the Ganges and Mekong River deltas....

Because of low rainfall and lack of irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an option for rainfed lowland rice farmers. But, thanks to...

A Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis) stares down the photographer who has interrupted the bird’s food foraging in IRRI’s rice fields....

Community coordination to manage sluice gates is an important factor for the intensification of polders. (Photo: IRRI) Sustained economic growth, the quality...

PRESS RELEASE VICTAM Asia 2018 will be organized from 27- 29 March 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand. The exhibition and conferences will be held once again at...

Through self-help groups, rural women are witnessing changes in their role in the agricultural sector: from “invisible” farm laborers to entrepreneurs....

A new, faster, and more accurate way of identifying infectious organisms—down to their genetic fingerprint—could finally put farmers a step ahead of...

Do rice plants have a wild adaptive trait that is counterproductive to aerobic cropping systems?  ...