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IRRI in Indonesia

Indonesia had about a hundred million mouths to feed when it achieved rice self-sufficiency in 1984. (Photo: Ariel Javellana/ADB©) From being a heavy rice importer in the 1970s, Indonesia today is the third-largest rice producer in the world, and has been consistently so since the 1970s. From 1970 to 2006,...

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IRRI in India

Rice being traded at an Indian wholesale market. (Photo: IRRI) During the 1943 Bengal famine, 3 to 4 million people died because of widespread starvation....

IRRI in Vietnam

Upland rice in Bae Kan, North Vietnam. (Photo: IRRI) Just south of Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, the great Mekong River meets the South China...

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’...

IRRI in Thailand

A payloader gathers newly unloaded paddy at a parboiling rice mill in Thailand. (Photo: IRRI) The International Rice Research Institute has had a longstanding...

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