Tag Archives: green revolution

(Photo: Science) The milestone publication in the 5 April 2002 issue of Science (Vol. 296) of not one, but two, draft genome sequences of rice (Oryza sativa)...

Shrimp farming became very profitable with the introduction of large varieties raised for export, just as protection against saltwater intrusion made possible...

An irrigated rice field in Laos. (Photo: IRRI) The most intensively cropped experimental site in Asia began four decades ago largely as a demonstration...

A vendor scooping rice in the marketplace in the Philippines. (Photo: IRRI) Approximately 70% of the world’s 1.3 billion poor people live in Asia, where...

(Photo: IRRI) Water buffalo and wiry farmers muscle plows through flooded rice paddies. Houses of rough planks and thatch cluster along a road that skirts...

Dr. Harry Nesbitt pitches in during construction, in 1990, of one of the earliest post-war irrigation canals (Photo: IRRI) On a rooftop overlooking Phnom...

(Photo: IRRI) The world’s major rice-producing nations have adopted an informal code of conduct governing the exchange of varieties and germplasm. The...

(Photo: IRRI) The successive articles Pesticide misuse, Breakthrough in biological control and Mix and interplant.focus on integrated pest management (IPM)...

(Photo: IRRI) In the years following World War II, there was growing concern about the food problem in Asia. The population was growing at close to 3%...

(Photo: IRRI) The successive articles Pesticide misuse, Breakthrough in biological control and Mix and interplant focus on integrated pest management (IPM)...