César Puerto’s half-hectare rice plot yields him 3 tons of grain each harvest. Mr. Puerto has dedicated...
Breeding and improvement
Uruguay is a small country in the Southern Cone of South America, located in a corner between...
The past 40 years have seen major advances in rice improvement for the unique and diverse growing...
Several million of the world’s poorest farmers are already adopting one of the first new technologies of...
“Twenty years is nothing,” say the lyrics of a 1930s’ song. But, in 2015, as the Latin...
International and national rice pathologists, who gathered recently for a training workshop in Burundi, were surprised to...
About one-third of the food produced in the world never reaches our plates. Not only is this...
It is difficult for colleagues to believe that once upon a time Kazuki Saito, an agronomist at Africa...
Uganda—widely known as “the pearl of Africa” for its exquisite natural beauty, diverse flora and fauna, and...
“The best adaptation to climate change is a breeding and seed system that rapidly develops, deploys, and...
