Rice farmers, like most people, instinctively abhor bugs, especially in their fields. This makes them easy targets...
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The world food crisis of 1973-75 continues to shape the attitude of Asian policymakers toward food security....
A simmering controversy boiled over a couple years ago when newspaper articles accused American plant breeders of...
Almost everyone acknowledges that the Green Revolution has substantially increased the yield and supply of cereals in...
The most recent World Food Summit, in 1996, set the target of halving by 2015 the number...
A defining moment in the history of biology was the elucidation of the laws of genetics by...
The most intensively cropped experimental site in Asia began four decades ago largely as a demonstration plot...
Approximately 70% of the world’s 1.3 billion poor people live in Asia, where rice is the staple...
In the years following World War II, there was growing concern about the food problem in Asia....
