Tag Archives: production

Many advancements in Vietnam’s agricultural mechanization started with small engines introduced in the early 1960s. (Photo: Martin Gummert) During...

You may remember reading an article in the July- September 2012 issue of Rice Today, documenting Uruguay’s rice sector and the impressive gains in productivity...

In the middle of the 19th century, rice was the economic backbone of Japanese society. Hierarchical ranks of feudal lords were determined by the amount...

(Photo: R. Panaligan) Three major cereal price spikes hit world markets in the past few years, one in 2007-08, another in 2010-11, and the third in 2012....

Global rice areas produced more than 690 million tons of rough rice in 2012.1 If we divide this by the number of seconds in a year, then—on average—nearly...

Once an unwanted waste material, rice husk is now used as fuel for generating electricity for households and industries as well as a replacement for wood...

(Photo: Matty Demont) A woman’s touch saves seeds Rural women are the “seed custodians” in Bangladesh. They play the primary, but typically unrecognized,...

The Rice Trader’s 4th annual World Rice Conference revealed that the global rice market was hinged on political decisions that would dictate rice exports,...

Recent advances in remote sensing are quite exciting. A case in point is the availability of high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors on...

IRRI scientists getting down and dirty for Rice Survivor. There was a time in recent years when it was apparent that an agronomist was a threatened species. Government...