improved varieties

Farmer-led popularization and dissemination of new rice varieties in Telangana help close the seed gap

Farmer-led popularization and dissemination of new rice varieties in Telangana help close the seed gap

September 18, 2023

by Mosharaf Hossain, Swati Nayak, Divya Gupta, Raja Sekhar G, Sarvesh Shukla, Anirban Nath, and Varsha Singh...

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Variety-based climate-smart intervention helps smallholder farmers cope with floods in the lowlands of Odisha

Variety-based climate-smart intervention helps smallholder farmers cope with floods in the lowlands of Odisha

September 5, 2023

by Mosharaf Hossain, Swati Nayak, Girija Swain, Pavan Yeggina, and Mukund Variar Natural calamities, primarily floods, of...

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How improved cultivation and groundnut variety helped a farmer build his future from the ground up  

How improved cultivation and groundnut variety helped a farmer build his future from the ground up  

January 9, 2023

by Bidhan K. Mohapatra, Ashok Kumar, Iftikar Wasim and N.C Banik Shri Ganesh Kandi has not cultivated...

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Improved cultivation and green gram varieties change a farmer’s story from struggle to success

Improved cultivation and green gram varieties change a farmer’s story from struggle to success

December 7, 2022

by Bidhan K. Mohapatra, Ashok Kumar, Virender Kumar, and Prakashan C. Veettil The story of Lingaraja Ratha...

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Climate risk and planting patterns: An examination of the direct and indirect effects of changing precipitation on the behavior of Bangladeshi farmers

Climate risk and planting patterns: An examination of the direct and indirect effects of changing precipitation on the behavior of Bangladeshi farmers

August 17, 2021

The interplay between changing environmental experiences and preferences implies that as weather patterns continue to evolve and...

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Flag leaf findings could accelerate the breeding of high-yielding, water-efficient rice

Flag leaf findings could accelerate the breeding of high-yielding, water-efficient rice

January 27, 2021

As breeders continue to search for ways to improve crop varieties to enable farmers to sustainably produce...

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The importance of maintenance breeding: A case study of the first miracle rice variety-IR8

The importance of maintenance breeding: A case study of the first miracle rice variety-IR8

November 28, 2020

The 2010 study examined the decreasing grain yield of IR8, which was the first modern rice variety...

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Sustainable rice production project wraps up nearly a decade of high-impact research-for-development activities

Sustainable rice production project wraps up nearly a decade of high-impact research-for-development activities

November 11, 2020

Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia with Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) tackled many serious challenges to agriculture...

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Training of women farmers enhances the adoption of new agricultural technologies

Training of women farmers enhances the adoption of new agricultural technologies

September 23, 2020

A recent study concluded that incentivizing farmers in general—and female farmers in particular—can serve as a potential...

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