A while back, I read an interesting story extolling the merits of the new flood-tolerant rice, Swarna-Sub1,...
Breeding and improvement
There is one occasion that Brazilian farmer Geovano Parcianello never misses. Every year, he travels 503 kilometers...
Venuprasad Ramaiah: A passion for rice genetics and breeding Like many of his classmates, Venuprasad Ramaiah was...
Husband and wife Joven and Lydia Ganapin, farmers in a small village in Babatngon, Leyte, Central Philippines,...
César Puerto’s half-hectare rice plot yields him 3 tons of grain each harvest. Mr. Puerto has dedicated...
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...
