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Instead of spraying insecticides, farmer-partners in Southeast Sulawesi now set up traps to catch male white stem borers. (Photo: Donna Casimero) In...

Green Super Rice varieties growing at the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) in Laos are farmer- as well as environment-friendly...

There was simply no turning back—literally—for the rodent management team from the International Rice Research Institute as the group headed to the...

A farmer in Laguna Province pretests the mobile phone service to receive fertilizer recommendations. (Photo by Joseph Sandro, IRRI) After labor, fertilizer...

Wild food plants such as the water lily abound in northeast Thailand. (Photo: Gisella Cruz García)  Rice fields are important for both rice production...

A sea of newly harvested rice extends to the horizon in Battambang Province—the rice bowl of Cambodia. It was only the third week of February, just...

  (Photos: John R. Leeper) Rice is a major food crop in the world and it would be safe to assume that it will remain the world’s leading food...

As long as there’s enough water to grow rice, Australia’s highly efficient rice industry achieves some of the highest yields in the world. (Photos:...

A famine broke out in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram in 1958-59. It reportedly took more than 10,000 lives and caused severe sociopolitical...