Tag Archives: green revolution

Loop surveys were conducted in the wet and dry season every four to five years from 1966-67 to 2011-12—the longest farm surveys in existence—in which...

It was 50 years ago this 28 November that the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) released a rice variety, under the nondescript name IR8. However,...

The overreaction of  rice farmers towards pests and diseases is creating the biggest negative impact on Cambodia’s society. ...

Dr. Robert Chandler was appointed by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations to be IRRI’s first director general and charged with a mission to develop...

This year, 2016, IRRI is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of IR8, the first semidwarf rice variety that changed agriculture across Asia,...

Thai rice farmers are fortunate to have a head of state who does more than offer symbolic support—His Majesty the King of Thailand is a monarch who genuinely...

An ambitious project plans to create an online catalog of rice genes in which breeders can choose from hundreds of thousands of genetic materials in the...

A quantitative trait locus, or QTL, is an incredibly small section of the DNA that, in the hands of critical-thinking scientists, has the potential to...

With no advanced education, Khushi Ram Mishra and Lok Nath Devkota have become successful seed producer farmers in Nepal. Their success stories are still...

“The potential is there, but you can’t eat potential.” This is one of the most memorable statements of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug....