Tag Archives: IR8

A seed of rice that could transform the developing world saved Asha Ram Pal’s farm in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in the summer of 2008. Mr. Pal...

Upland rice in Bae Kan, North Vietnam. (Photo: IRRI) Just south of Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, the great Mekong River meets the South China...

  The early years Ruttan had laid a good foundation for research and had established contacts with economists elsewhere in the Philippines, particularly...

The author (left) with former Viet Cong political officer Tran Van Rang on the Xa No Canal in the lower Mekong Delta in 1988. Rang has just explained why...

Examining IR8 in the Institute fields in August 1967 are IRRI breeder Hank Beachell (crouching), visiting philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III (left),...