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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...

(Photo: IRRI) Surrounded by India Bangladesh is a country that is as culturally and historically rich. Having an agrarian economy as early as the 13th...

(Photo: Peggy Reimchen ) Brazil is the ninth-largest producer of rice worldwide and it is the biggest producer outside Asia. Brazil first reached rice...