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The Thai rice mortgage scheme continues to receive a fair amount of media bashing even after completing its one-year anniversary on 7 October 2012. The...

The new IRRI moisture testers can help farmers come up with more-informed decisions on safe storage. (Photo: Isagani Serrano, IRRI) Farmers need not crack...

In Lao PDR, rice production is an important livelihood of 724,000 farmers. (Photo: IRRI) In Lao PDR, rice production is an important livelihood of 724,000...

The Department of Agricultural Engineering (DAEng) demonstrated laser leveling in the rice fields of Don Bosco School and Toul Samrong Agricultural Engineering...

Healthy rice landscapes. Planting different types of flowering plants alongside rice can help encourage predators and parasitoids that prey on pests, including...

A long time ago, I was told, “Rice is to Asians what wine is to Europeans.” Wine is linked to Europe’s culture and cuisines as closely as rice is...

(Photo: IRRI) Rice farmers all over the world are using new and improved technologies. And, to some degree, these technologies have helped keep many...

For many years, rice has been an important part of Sri Lankan culture and it is also the country’s invaluable and most accessible food source. On average,...

Queleas—often referred to as “feathered locusts”—are probably the most destructive birds in the world. (Photo: Bernard DUPONT) Mrs. Aguénou...