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(Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT) If you were asked to name some of the outstanding rice producers of the world, you might say China, India, or the United States. You’d be forgiven for not thinking of Uruguay. But, this small, temperate country on the east coast of South America’s “southern cone” is now...

Delegates of the 6th TRT Rice Americas board a boat at the Miami Beach Marina for some fun and networking activities. (Photo: The Rice Trader) In the...

Farmers produce good quality seeds of different rice varieties in Arakan Valley, Philippines. (Photo: Isagani Serrano) In Arakan Valley, the upland “rice...

The wild relatives of rice are repositories of important traits that help breeders improve rice. (Photo: IRRI) Scientists are scouring the deep and “wild”...

(Photo: Sophie Clayton) Burundi is a small landlocked country in Central Africa.Longstanding tribal conflicts in the country broke out into a civil war...

(Photos: Karen Bearb) The development of rice varieties helps guarantee sustainable rice production in the state of Louisiana and elsewhere in the United...

Ram Behal Maurya and his sons will be harvesting rice from a small piece of land he inherited from his father in one of the flashflood-prone areas in...

Mr. Chakravathy decided to use a drum seeder this year to sow his new crop. (Photo: M.N. Budhar) Consumers in Tamil Nadu, a predominantly rice-growing...

The author (left) with former Viet Cong political officer Tran Van Rang on the Xa No Canal in the lower Mekong Delta in 1988. Rang has just explained why...

Examining IR8 in the Institute fields in August 1967 are IRRI breeder Hank Beachell (crouching), visiting philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III (left),...