To understand the importance of rice farming to Bangladesh, look at the numbers. This densely populated country-more...
Crop management
In 1990, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) needed more food. The rice industry in particular...
The Farming Systems Research Group at Khon Kaen University, in Thailand’s hardscrabble northeast, studies the evolution of...
In the overleaf that follows, the breathtaking bird’s-eye view of the winding Alimit River in remote northeastern...
Li Kan is a warm, convivial man. He welcomes guests with a genuine pleasure, shooing the dogs...
Rice improvement efforts supported by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have recently proven their worth in...
Almost 90% of the 11 million hectares of rice that are planted each season in Bangladesh is...
The headlines don’t scream at you from the front page. But their effect builds and, if you’ve...
It is difficult to find an image of rice farming that is not, figuratively speaking, all wet....
Cool and collected, Pak (short for an Indonesian word Bapak, which means father or mister) Darwis, a...
