Tag Archives: agriculture

The 16-year partnership between the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of South Korea has made...

Before modern science, Filipino rice farmers relied on superstitions for bountiful harvests ...

A resistant variety and a fungus used as a treatment for blast disease offer Cambodian farmers a safer disease management option. ...

The rice eel, an invasive alien species, has become a slippery problem for many farmers in Northern and Central Philippines where most of the country’s...

A panicle of traditional basmati (Basmati 370) cultivated in Ranbir Singh Pura and adjoining villages in the Jammu region. (Photo: IRRI) . Aromatic rice...

White-breasted woodswallows foraging for insects at the IRRI headquarters. (Photo by Isagani Serrano, IRRI). ...

The rice varietal cafeteria provides a space where farmers and other stakeholders interact, discuss, give feedback, learn, and decide on their varietal...

We generate some very useful data and we let that data go to waste by 1) not being very innovative in our data interpretations, 2) not letting that data...

Rice grains inside a solar bubble dryer. (Photo by Isagani Serrano, IRRI) . ...

Often we see research as being “research” and scaling technology as work that development organizations do. What we often fail to see is that...