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Spreading the word

(Photo: IRRI) India is a world away from Indiana, and none would mistake Sister Sajita Isaac for Johnny Appleseed. But the peripatetic Catholic nun calls to mind the fabled nurseryman of the American frontier. Like John Chapman — to use the real name of the evangelist who roamed Indiana and Ohio for half...

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Mekong harvests

Shrimp farming became very profitable with the introduction of large varieties raised for export, just as protection against saltwater intrusion made possible...

Lost horizon restored

(Photo: IRRI) Water buffalo and wiry farmers muscle plows through flooded rice paddies. Houses of rough planks and thatch cluster along a road that skirts...

Towering legacies

Dr. Harry Nesbitt pitches in during construction, in 1990, of one of the earliest post-war irrigation canals (Photo: IRRI) On a rooftop overlooking Phnom...

Fair shares

(Photo: IRRI) The world’s major rice-producing nations have adopted an informal code of conduct governing the exchange of varieties and germplasm. The...

IPM: Mix and interplant

(Photo: IRRI) The successive articles Pesticide misuse, Breakthrough in biological control and Mix and interplant.focus on integrated pest management (IPM)...

IPM: Breakthrough in biological control

(Photo: IRRI) The successive articles Pesticide misuse, Breakthrough in biological control and Mix and interplant focus on integrated pest management (IPM)...

IPM: Pesticide misuse

(Photo: IRRI) The successive articles Pesticide misuse, Breakthrough in biological control and Mix and interplant focus on integrated pest management (IPM)...

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