Through self-help groups, rural women are witnessing changes in their role in the agricultural sector: from “invisible”...
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February 13, 2018
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A new, faster, and more accurate way of identifying infectious organisms—down to their genetic fingerprint—could finally put...
February 5, 2018
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Do rice plants have a wild adaptive trait that is counterproductive to aerobic cropping systems?
January 22, 2018
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For thousands of Bangladeshi farmers in flood-prone areas, growing rice is a risk they have to take...
January 18, 2018
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Today’s challenges facing scientists are greater than they were 50 years ago. Fortunately, available scientific tools and...
January 12, 2018
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Climate change-ready rice varieties are a milestone in doubling the income of Indian farmers.
January 8, 2018
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Odisha, India—Demonstration plots have been used in introducing new varieties that are appropriate and beneficial to the...
December 18, 2017
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Head-to-head (H2H) trials are an effective instrument for improving adoption and varietal replacement through informal seed diffusion....
December 13, 2017
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With the right tools, ordinary people can be extraordinary agents of change.
December 13, 2017
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An experiment focused on nitrogen use efficiency (organic and inorganic sources) and root system architecture concluded that...
