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Strategic alliance with BRAC

BRAC will play a key role in attaining food security through improved agricultural productivity in coastal Bangladesh ...

Development of strategy to reduce Cambodian farmers’ reliance on pesticides is on track

Mr. Chou Cheythyrith, EPIC project partner from GDA, (facing camera) explains the experiment on Trichoderma and pest-resistant rice varieties to visiting...

Researchers use drones to study nutrient status, greenhouse gas emissions of rice crop

Drones have been circling the experimental farms of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) not just to take amazing bird’s-eye-view photos...

Continuing global partnership through rice

RICE aims to reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, adapt rice-based farming systems to climate change, promote women’s empowerment...

CSISA utilizes master trainers to disseminate rice nursery entrepreneurship and mechanical transplanting in Odisha

A service provider from CSISA demonstrates the mechanical transplanting of rice to extension agents. (Photo: CSISA) BHUBANESWAR, Odisha—The Cereal Systems...

Odisha extension agents trained to teach farmers in using laser land leveling and seed-cum-fertilizer drills

The extension professionals from various government agencies in Odisha attend a training to help make them better at disseminating modern technologies...

Integrating gender in agricultural research: More than counting the women farmers

Integrating gender in agricultural research is no longer a debate; it is about doing it effectively. ...

Tobias Kretzschmar: Bridging discovery work with applied science

In this interview, molecular biologist Tobias Kretzschmar shares his scientific journey and offers tips to aspiring scientists. ...

Piloting the Vietnamese “Small Farmers, Large Field” scheme in eastern India

Smallholder rice farmers are finding strength in numbers through a scheme that helps them lower their production costs and increases their productivity....

Helping Cambodia reap a more bountiful harvest

After achieving rice self-sufficiency in the 1990s, Cambodia strives to be a global rice producer. ...

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