Wheat gets rust. Maize (corn) gets rust. Also barley, millet, triticale, and oats. In fact, all cereals,...
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“The rice plant produces only rice seeds; it does not produce sand, stones, or other foreign materials,” ...
More than 1,100 delegates from around the world gathered in Des Moines, Iowa, last 13-15 October, to...
“Pongal is a harvest festival widely celebrated by farmers in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka to give...
For the past 50 years, rice yield in Asia has generally increased from year to year. However,...
During the 1943 Bengal famine, 3 to 4 million people died because of widespread starvation. Since then,...
The Asia Society and the International Rice Research Institute task force report, Never an Empty Bowl: Sustaining...
Rice will never be just another commodity. Much of the truth behind this simple statement can be...
“Let’s increase food production without letting land stand idle,” Park Chung-Hee, then president of the Republic of...
It is with great delight that I report to you that the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP)...
