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“When you educate a girl, you educate a nation.” Nowhere is this saying more true than in the farming sector in Africa, according to Peinda Cissé,...

Green Super Rice varieties growing at the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) in Laos are farmer- as well as environment-friendly...

There was simply no turning back—literally—for the rodent management team from the International Rice Research Institute as the group headed to the...

Dr. Hei Leung (right), IRRI scientist, explains the screening of rice germplasm and mutants to understand why rice is resistant to rust species. (Photo:...

Locally milled rice in Africa is generally of poor quality and is consumed mainly in rural areas. (Photo: R. Raman, AfricaRice) Brightly colored bags...

In 1982, Dr. César Martínez visited a rained rice-growing area near Tarapoto, in Peru’s upper Amazon Basin. Martínez, then a rice breeder with...

(Photo: William Sta. Clara) It is fair to say that, without a successful hybrid rice program, China would have struggled to achieve its phenomenal growth...

Red rice, a close relative of rice, is a noxious weed that can be controlled very effectively with the Clearfield production system. (Photo: Bruce Schultz) Rice...

A farmer in Laguna Province pretests the mobile phone service to receive fertilizer recommendations. (Photo by Joseph Sandro, IRRI) After labor, fertilizer...