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BASMATI RICE farmers in Pakistan are finding better livelihoods with access to the European market. Photo: RPL. A program for improving Pakistan’s basmati rice for the export market is a shining example of how the private and public sectors can work together to make a difference. An improvement program...

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

Many countries have greatly benefited from the agricultural technology developed at IRRI with the support of traditional donors. In recent decades, India...

In 1965, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) appointed S.V.S. Shastry, a distinguished breeder and geneticist, as its first coordinator...

German students get involved in taking measurements of greenhouse gas emissions from rice. (Photo: Isagani Serrano) Germany’s government and scientists...

Rice research and training activities are intensifying in the West-Central Asia region (see Rice booms in Turkey), as rice demand is projected to increase...

In Lao PDR, rice production is an important livelihood of 724,000 farmers. (Photo: IRRI) In Lao PDR, rice production is an important livelihood of 724,000...

Dr. Joseph Bigirimana, liaison scientist, hosts a visit of officials at an IRR I site in Burundi. (Photo: Nduwimana Julien) Rice was introduced in Burundi...

(Photo: IRRI) Cambodia’s resurgence in the 1990s, following a couple of troubling decades of war and internal strife, was a transformation that saw...

Mr. Norio Matsuda, chief representative of JICA, and Mr. Norman Macdonald, director for IRRI’s management services, at the signing of the MOU for...