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food security
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Do rice plants have a wild adaptive trait that is counterproductive to aerobic cropping systems?
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For thousands of Bangladeshi farmers in flood-prone areas, growing rice is a risk they have to take...
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Today’s challenges facing scientists are greater than they were 50 years ago. Fortunately, available scientific tools and...
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Climate change-ready rice varieties are a milestone in doubling the income of Indian farmers.
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Odisha, India—Demonstration plots have been used in introducing new varieties that are appropriate and beneficial to the...
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Head-to-head (H2H) trials are an effective instrument for improving adoption and varietal replacement through informal seed diffusion....
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