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(Photo: IRRI) Prabhjit woke to the sound of the roosters crowing, just as her mother, grandmother, and countless generations of women in the state of Odisha...

SWARNA SUB1, a submergence-tolerant variety, has been adopted by many farmers in countries such as India and Bangladesh. (Photo: STRASA-India) By serendipity,...

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is now embarking on an unprecedented overhaul of its breeding agenda to achieve two things: increase the...

  Paul Bourdin is a registered bird ringer in South Africa and the Philippines. He has contributed to ornithological journals and other birding publications...

As the sun rises and casts its first beams of light over the experimental rice fields at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), there is a flurry...

To the untrained eye, the research farm at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines may look like nothing more than a verdant...

(Photo: Martin Gummert) At first, the flatbed rice grain dryer did not take off in most countries because of the high-cost kerosene-fueled burner. Its...

(Photo: Stepan Haefele) Farmers typically grow two or three crops a year. Since they don’t have enough turnaround time before beginning the next planting...

Turkey has the third-highest average rice yield in the world (behind Australia and Egypt), which reflects a sustained investment in research and extension...