Tag Archives: farmers

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...

Today, the world’s population is growing faster than ever before and humankind faces an enormous task of producing enough food for all. ...

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...

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

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...

You may remember reading an article in the July- September 2012 issue of Rice Today, documenting Uruguay’s rice sector and the impressive gains in productivity...

This issue of Rice Today is for the birds! For the first time, the magazine sports four different covers, each featuring some of the bird species found...

(Photo: R. Panaligan) Three major cereal price spikes hit world markets in the past few years, one in 2007-08, another in 2010-11, and the third in 2012....

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...

Promoting locally produced rice sustains cultivation of the crop, which leads to the country’s economic growth.(Photos: R. Raman, AfricaRice) A celebration...