Tag Archives: grain quality

High temperatures cause significant yield losses in major rice-growing areas of the world, posing a stiff challenge in meeting the demand for rice from...

The aromatic rice sector has great potential for industry expansion. This potential is important to be explored especially in the current Philippine agriculture...

The right storage container can bring multiple advantages for smallholder farmers and rice milling companies. The use of hermetic storage containers is...

A total of 2,500 breeding lines were selected by members of the Hybrid Rice Development Consortium (HRDC) during its 8th annual meeting annual meeting...

Uruguay is a small country in the Southern Cone of South America, located in a corner between the Río de la Plata and the Atlantic Ocean. Rolling hills,...

The past 40 years have seen major advances in rice improvement for the unique and diverse growing conditions of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)....

(Photo: R. Raman, AfricaRice) The rice connection I was born in Saint Louis, which is located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal...

Increasing the yield potential of rice has always been the priority in working to increase food security. But, in the race to feed the world, grain quality,...

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

Before scientists ever started crossing different rice plants, farmers had inadvertently been at it for centuries. By the mid- 1800s, scientists were catching...