Tag Archives: production

A lifelong interest in Asia has propelled a business model and value chain specialist for the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) into a meaningful...

Dr. Pulver is a scientist with a global mission:  improve farmers’ lives by raising crop yields. His accomplishments range from increasing Peru’s...

Husband and wife Joven and Lydia Ganapin, farmers in a small village in Babatngon, Leyte, Central Philippines, clearly remember the floods triggered by...

Shifts in the center of rice area in China from 1981 to 2010 for annual (red), single-cropped (blue), and double-cropped rice (green). Understanding and...

(Photo: Jec Narciso) The Purple Yam is a restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2009 by me and chef Romy Dorotan, with a branch in Manila in the...

SKULL AND RICE decorate Dia de los Muertos festival in Mexico City. (Photo: Alejandro De la Cruz) Anyone worried about the impacts of trade liberalization...

CORNELL PHD candidate Alice Beban (left) used her ARFUSA travel grant to enhance her field research in Cambodia. Here, she interviews a Cambodian farm...

Rice is the most important staple food for more than half the planet’s population, particularly for the poor of Asia. World rice yield, herein called...

Rice Today has come a long way since its first issue in 2002, when its editorial contents were almost all coming from the International Rice Research...

(Photo: IRRI) The global rice market has been quite uneventful in the past several months. The news of possible monsoon failure in India and Southeast...