In Asia, where about 90% of rice is grown, hundreds of millions of rural poor grow rice...
Crop management
Maize ears from CIMMYT’s collection, showing a wide variety of colors and shapes. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank contains...
The world population is expected to increase almost as sure as the sun rises in the east....
Burundi is a small landlocked country in Central Africa.Longstanding tribal conflicts in the country broke out into...
Salinity affects around 1 million hectares in Bangladesh. Some climate experts say that sea-level rise will cause...
Few countries in Asia are familiar with precision land leveling or laser land leveling, but, in India,...
A growing number of subsistence farmers as well as seed growers are now planting “climate-change-ready” rice in...
Consumers in Tamil Nadu, a predominantly rice-growing state in India, who preferred millet grains, particularly finger millet,...
In 1997, as a reaction to the growing concerns of consumers, British food retailers working with supermarkets...
Fears of food shortages following the rice crisis in 2007 and 2008 have prompted a dramatic shift...
