Tag Archives: drought-tolerant rice

How rice plants “manage” water under drought

Because of low rainfall and lack of irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an option for rainfed lowland rice farmers. But, thanks to...

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....

Tribal women farmers find their voice

Drought-tolerant rice helps farmers cope in areas that suffer from water scarcity. (Photo: GRiSP) ...

India: Tripura farmers welcome the release of drought-tolerant rice varieties

Thousands of farmers in drought-prone Tripura Province welcomed the release of 16 new varieties of different crops, including nine drought-tolerant rice varieties, at an event organized by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Research Complex for North Eastern Region, at its research center in Lembucheera. The released lines have high yield potential that...

Tripura farmers welcome the release of drought-tolerant rice varieties

Thousands of farmers in drought-prone Tripura Province welcome the release of 16 new varieties of various crops, including nine rice varieties for different...

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