climate change - Rice Today

Regional consortium examines initiatives, way forward for rice and climate change agenda in fragile environments

The rice sector in Southeast Asia is beset with climate-related problems, thus, concerted efforts in tackling this important issue remain vital ...

Technology on display: A glimpse of Philippine agriculture’s future

During his visit to IRRI, Secretary Piñol was interested in bringing advances in rice production developed through IRRI’s research to the farmers “so we can focus on food production and poverty alleviation,” which is a cornerstone of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration. “Technologies are useless unless they are in the hands of farmers,” said Secretary...

Change is coming to Philippine agriculture

Emmanuel Piñol, the new secretary of the Department of Agriculture, aims to achieve food security through the rapid and effective transfer of technologies...

50 years of tracking farming changes in the Philippine rice granary

Loop surveys were conducted in the wet and dry season every four to five years from 1966-67 to 2011-12—the longest farm surveys in existence—in which...

EPIC: A new partnership for rice pest management in Cambodia

The overreaction of rice farmers towards pests and diseases is creating the biggest negative impact on Cambodia’s society. ...

Digital genes

An ambitious project plans to create an online catalog of rice genes in which breeders can choose from hundreds of thousands of genetic materials in the...

Empowering women farmers in the polder communities of Bangladesh

When women are empowered, their families, children, the next generation, and their communities are empowered, too. ...

Shalabh Dixit: The link between rice genes and rice farmers

A quantitative trait locus, or QTL, is an incredibly small section of the DNA that, in the hands of critical-thinking scientists, has the potential to...

Combating floods and droughts in Lao PDR with climate-smart rice

CURE and its partners, led by Lao’s Agriculture Research Center, show farmers how to grow flood- and drought-tolerant rice to increase productivity....

Myanmar partners produce high-yielding salinity-tolerant rice varieties

Sixty farmers participated in evaluating new salinity-tolerant rice varieties in a farmer’s field in Meikhtilar District, Mandalay to identify new high-yielding...

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