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Developing mechanically dense transplanting of single seedlings for hybrid rice production in China

Rice production plays a critical role in achieving food self-sufficiency in China where more than 65% of the population eats rice as a staple food. In order to produce enough rice, many novel rice technologies have been successfully developed and implemented in China. In particular, China was the first country...

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Solving the world’s soil crisis

Sustainable soil management is an integral part of sustainable land management as well as a basis for addressing poverty eradication, agricultural and...

From Green Super Rice to green agriculture: how rice functional genomics is leading a new revolution

The Green Super Rice project has made great progress in the past ten years using advances in rice functional genomic studies, which have identified hundreds...

An app to help African rice farmers beat weeds

AfricaRice recently launched a powerful decision-support tool, called RiceAdvice-WeedManager, to help African rice farmers find the most effective and...

Precision nutrient management tools help Indian farmers make smart fertilizer decisions

Easy-to-use technologies are reducing farmers’ fertilizer wastage, production cost, and impact on the environment. ...

From Warige to WeRise: better water management is coming to rainfed rice areas of Indonesia

As climate patterns become more unpredictable, rice farmers are relying on a modern way of to forecast the monsoon rains. ...

The food-water-energy nexus: Using gravity drainage to intensify production systems in the coastal zone of Bangladesh

Community coordination to manage sluice gates is an important factor for the intensification of polders. (Photo: IRRI) Sustained economic growth, the quality...

Research to improve water-use efficiency in rice

IRRI and its partners will continue to develop water-saving technologies to improve the livelihoods of rice farmers and their communities, particularly...

Smart fertilizer management and the quest for sustainable rice production

Specific fertilizer recommendations in smallholder rice farming systems could increase crop production while reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions....

An app tailor-made for India’s rice farmers

Given the wide variability of farms across India, the Rice Crop Manager (RCM) is providing management recommendations tailored to each farmer’s field....

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