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In the wake of the world food price crisis of 2007-08, the consensus view is that, because of several trends (climate change, biofuels, scarcity of land...

 An experiment that has been going on for more than half a century could hold a solution to a nagging concern of feeding an ever-increasing population...

(Photo: ZURSUNBEANS.COM) Himachal Pradesh, the northernmost Indian state on the southern slopes of the Himalayas, could be the closest thing to the mythical...

SUDHANSHU SINGH (in checkered shirt) talks with the farmers in a village in Odisha to monitor the performance of flood-tolerant Swarna-Sub1 (background)...

THE STRAW of Sahbhagi dhan, a drought-tolerant rice, is a popular cattle feed. (Photo: Lanie Reyes) A car can usually travel down the narrow concrete road...

Rice is important to the people and the economy of Nepal, where agriculture employs around 80% of the population and contributes 37% to the country’s...

Southeast Asia is the hub of the world’s rice economy. As a region, it has been a net exporter of rice for most of the past 110 years (the exception...

Farmers also check the taste when choosing their preferred salinity-tolerant variety. (Photo: Romeo Labios) Soe Moe Kyaw’s family was fishing in a different...

Under the “Mansholt Plan” for rice in Asia, governments are urged to expand farm size, promote mechanization, and improve yields and farm efficiencies to...

President U Thein Sein (right), with key government officials, came to IRRI in December 2013 to strengthen research ties with the Institute, here represented...