fertilizer
October 15, 2014
About one-third of the food produced in the world never reaches our plates. Not only is this...
July 1, 2014
It is difficult for colleagues to believe that once upon a time Kazuki Saito, an agronomist at Africa...
January 1, 2014
For more than 25 years, Kong Luen “K.L.” Heong worked at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)...
January 1, 2014
For years, the entomologists at Vietnam’s Southern Regional Plant Protection Center in Long Dinh had tried to...
October 1, 2013
C4 plants such as maize and sorghum have more efficient photosynthesis than C3 plants. The photosynthesis in...
April 1, 2013
In the middle of the 19th century, rice was the economic backbone of Japanese society. Hierarchical ranks...
January 26, 2009
Food security is back on the global agenda. With the recent food crisis, public attention has returned...
October 20, 2008
Rising fertilizer prices and misperceptions about environmental degradation in intensive agriculture have stimulated claims that so-called “low-input”...
October 18, 2008
The largest expense for rice farming after labor is typically the purchase of fertilizers. Fertilizer prices have...
