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(Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT) If you were asked to name some of the outstanding rice producers of the world, you might say China, India, or the United States. You’d...

Farmers produce good quality seeds of different rice varieties in Arakan Valley, Philippines. (Photo: Isagani Serrano) In Arakan Valley, the upland “rice...

Thailand sticky rice with mango. (Photo: John Leeper) A long time ago, I was told, “Rice is to Asians what wine is to Europeans.” Wine is linked to...

A peddle thresher being tried by farmers in Bela Vista, Mozambique. A farmer’s life has never been an easy one. Before farmers can reap the full benefit...

(Photo: Moises John C. Reyse) A family of five cooks a kilogram of rice in a pot for breakfast. Somebody forgets about it and it burns—the rice at...

The excitement of rice farmers in Saint-Louis, Senegal, upon seeing an appropriate engine-driven small-scale thresher from Asia in the mid-1990s could...

In the Philippines, the second phase of the Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP2) works to reduce poverty and improve...

The wild relatives of rice are repositories of important traits that help breeders improve rice. (Photo: IRRI) Scientists are scouring the deep and “wild”...

Lady beetles are farmers’ best friends because they eat pests that destroy rice. (Photo: Chris Quintana) Don’t let the lady beetle’s adorable...