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Balancing food security, vertebrate biodiversity, and healthy rice agroecosystems in Southeast Asia

In Southeast Asia, as mechanization increases, there is a need to evaluate the impact of how related changes in farming practices affect biodiversity....

Mechanized seeding helps Odisha farmer do away with fallows and increase the productivity of his rice-based cropping system

Bikram Keshari Parida volunteered to conduct mechanized seeding using various high-yielding crop varieties and hybrids and improved agronomy in his fields....

The Central Luzon Loop Survey: Rice farming in the Philippines from 1966 to 2021

The Central Luzon Loop Survey in the Philippines (the Loop Survey) is one of the longest-running and still ongoing household-level farm surveys in tropical...

Sacks of NFA rice shipped from Vietnam

Southeast Asia must narrow down the yield gap to continue to be a major rice bowl

The importance of maintaining the capacity of Southeast Asia to produce a large rice surplus goes beyond the region as it can help reduce global price...

Understanding the dynamic of rice farming systems in southern Mozambique to improve production and benefits to smallholders

This study aimed to assess rice farming system typologies in the Chókwè Irrigation Scheme to better understand the drivers and constraints for smallholder...

Farmer, service provider, manufacturer, extension worker: Four perspectives on rice seeders and IPM in Cambodia

Farmers, extension professionals, the private sector, and other stakeholders are uniquely impacted by agricultural innovation. The following are accounts...

The rice processing industry in Nepal: Constraints and opportunities

A study of the rice milling industry would provide the overall context within which to examine the drivers and barriers to the growth of the rice sector...

Maintaining the diversity of integrated rice and fish production confers adaptability of food systems to global change

Rice and fish production practices can provide local food and nutrition security, income benefits, generate more revenue per hectare than rice monoculture,...

Changing the world with seeds: The breeding history of IR8

In the 1950s, Asia is on the brink of famine. Food is scarce and millions of people are in danger of suffering from starvation. So, in 1960, IRRI was established...

Sustainable rice production project wraps up nearly a decade of high-impact research-for-development activities

Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia with Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) tackled many serious challenges to agriculture by conducting adaptive research...