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Hybrid rice for global food security

(Photo: China National Hybrid Rice Research & Development Center©) Replacing half of the rice-growing areas in the world with hybrid rice varieties...

One rice, thousand gold

Illustrated by Hanna Joy Malabanan A long, long time ago, during the Qin Dynasty in China, there was a boy named Hán Xìn (Han-Shin). He was born in a...

Game changers in the global rice market

Farmers holding rice baskets. For the past four decades, the global rice market has been dominated by a few exporters, namely, Thailand, Vietnam, the United...

Both politics and monsoons can affect the rice market

Global rice prices have been fairly stable since 2012 after a run up in the first half of 2011 in anticipation of the reintroduction of the Thai mortgage...

Global rice trade faces uncertainty in 2013

The Rice Trader’s 4th annual World Rice Conference revealed that the global rice market was hinged on political decisions that would dictate rice exports,...

Rice in the dragon shadow: China 1976

The first person-to-person contact between the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and China occurred in 1974. On that occasion, IRRI Director...

High and dry

On a steaming hot Beijing day in August 2007, a group of researchers from China Agricultural University (CAU) visited their experimental station on the...

Challenges for rice production in China

Rice is the staple food for around two-thirds of the Chinese people. China ranks first in annual total rice production (about 185 million tons) and second, after India, in annual total planting area (29 million hectares). The country produces 35% of the world’s rice with 20% of the planting area. Rice production in China has more than tripled in the past five decades...

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