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FARMERS IN INDONESIA mixing fertilizer (potassium chloride and urea) for application to rice at panicle-initiation stage. (Photo: Monina Escalada) The largest expense for rice farming after labor is typically the purchase of fertilizers. Fertilizer prices have dramatically increased in recent months,...

Viput Wanglee (left) and his brother Vuttiphol, assistant to Chaitip’s managing director for production, examine the company’s premium quality Thai...

High school students at the Binulasan Integrated School in Quezon, Philippines, are all smiles during a hands-on exercise on pest management in their...

BRRI’s M.A. Mazid (front, with glasses and beard) and IRRI’s David Johnson (behind sign) discuss direct seeding and monga mitigation. (Photo: Grant...

In the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr, the rice farmers of southern Bangladesh are struggling to get back on their feet. Immediate relief is needed, but science...

The main canal from Pantabangan Reservoir irrigates around 90,000 hectares in the Philippines’ Central Luzon region. (Photo: Raymond Jose Panaligan)  In...

Parboiled rice is loaded at a riverside dock in Bangkok. It will be hauled down the Chao Phraya River to the Gulf of Thailand, to be loaded aboard cargo...

A lack of rain in the northern Philippines in July and August 2007 meant that many farmers’ rice fields—such as these in Isabela Province—remained...

A sweeping view across mountains in northern Vietnam takes in all the components of the rice landscape: upland rice planted on steep slopes, paddy rice,...

A hybrid Rice yield trial in Jiangxi, China. (Photo: Rodolfo Toledo) A country that is home to around one-fifth of the entire planet’s population...