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How improved cultivation and groundnut variety helped a farmer build his future from the ground up  

Shri Ganesh Kandi has not cultivated the groundnut on his farm in the past 10 years because of its low yield and low market price. With technical support from the DSR-Odisha/CSISA projects team, Ganesh successfully cultivated groundnut again during the 2021-22 rabi season. More importantly, it proved to be...

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Sustainable rice production project wraps up nearly a decade of high-impact research-for-development activities

Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia with Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) tackled many serious challenges to agriculture by conducting adaptive research...

Nepal follows the path to climate-change-ready rice farming

The adoption of stress-tolerant rice varieties in 22 districts in Nepal is leading the way to sustainable rice production and food security in the country....

Singapore helps build the next generation of rice scientists

The Lee Foundation Rice Scholarship Program offers South and Southeast Asians in the early stages of their careers a unique opportunity to acquire an...

The lion and the grain

(Photo by Brian Evans ) Singapore hosts stakeholders in the rice industry—researchers, producers, traders, regulators, and policymakers—to foster...

Celebrating 50 years of IR8: U.S. President Johnson makes historic visit to IRRI with stirring words

This year, 2016, IRRI is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of IR8, the first semidwarf rice variety that changed agriculture across Asia,...

INGER@40—and the crossroads

INGER, the world’s largest agricultural research network, has a long history associated with milestones in rice breeding. Overall, more than 1,120 of...

Blueprint for a greener revolution

One finger cannot lift a pebble,” says an African proverb. The significance of working together cannot be over-emphasized—especially now, when the...

IRRI in Korea

Early this year, RDA Administrator Dr. Jae-Soo Kim and IRRI Director General Dr. Robert Zeigler signed a Memorandum of Agreement on the two institutions’...

Never an empty bowl

The Council of Ministers of the 23 member countries of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) hailed the new harmonized international partnership for rice...

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