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Farmers also check the taste when choosing their preferred salinity-tolerant variety. (Photo: Romeo Labios) Soe Moe Kyaw’s family was fishing in a different...

Under the “Mansholt Plan” for rice in Asia, governments are urged to expand farm size, promote mechanization, and improve yields and farm efficiencies to...

President U Thein Sein (right), with key government officials, came to IRRI in December 2013 to strengthen research ties with the Institute, here represented...

The air pressure from the ventilators holds up the polyethylene plastic sheet over the rice grains. (Photo: Ana Salvatierra) In typical Philippine villages,...

How will we create a better life and a better future for rice? How can we do much more, with less? ...

(Photo: Gene Hettel) For more than 25 years, Kong Luen “K.L.” Heong worked at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as an entomologist,...

(Photo: Ho Van Chien) For years, the entomologists at Vietnam’s Southern Regional Plant Protection Center in Long Dinh had tried to sell rice farmers...

(Photo: Isagani Serrano) If the searing heat wasn’t enough, the thick, dark smoke that engulfed the area surrounding the furnace made the workers want...

(Photo: Yusaku Uga) An international team led by the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS) in Japan, which includes scientists from the...