Dr. Robert Chandler was appointed by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations to be IRRI’s first director general...
international rice research institute
Celebrating 50 years of IR8: U.S. President Johnson makes historic visit to IRRI with stirring words
Celebrating 50 years of IR8: U.S. President Johnson makes historic visit to IRRI with stirring words
This year, 2016, IRRI is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of IR8, the first semidwarf...
Thai rice farmers are fortunate to have a head of state who does more than offer symbolic...
An ambitious project plans to create an online catalog of rice genes in which breeders can choose...
When women are empowered, their families, children, the next generation, and their communities are empowered, too.
A quantitative trait locus, or QTL, is an incredibly small section of the DNA that, in the...
Sixty farmers participated in evaluating new salinity-tolerant rice varieties in a farmer’s field in Meikhtilar District, Mandalay...
In India, self-help groups have made a tremendous impact on the lives of poor women in rural...
MANILA, Philippines—Rice production in Asia faces a myriad of challenges including meeting the demands of an increasing...
MUNTINLUPA CITY, Philippines—The Philippine Rice Information System (PRISM), a website that gathers and organizes information on rice...
