Tag Archives: rice research

Providing a relative magnitude of returns to investments is important for donors so that they can see whether payoffs still exist to fund this type of...

In the past 29 years, the Germplasm Utilization Value Added (GUVA) project has delivered six released varieties that are resistant to some of the major...

The Green Super Rice (GSR) breeding strategy began in 2008 at IRRI to efficiently develop lines with multiple-stress tolerance and more nutrient- and water-use...

This review examines the development and subsequent wide-scale adoption of best management practices known as 1 Must Do and 5 Reductions (1M5R) in Vietnam....

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA)-based management practices are evolving as a viable and sustainable alternative to conventional rice-wheat cropping systems...

Investment, innovation, and empowering the world’s most vulnerable populations are required to establish a rice production system that adapts to climate...

The prospects for rice self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa are being subverted by abiotic and biotic factors, including plant diseases. Several important...

Corinne Mira Marfori-Nazarea is one of the scientists at IRRI working on rice biofortification. “I think our efforts will make a difference when we develop...

Drought incidence in rain-fed areas is the major abiotic stress especially to rice growing in around 23 million ha areas in India, the dry spells of different...

The 2010 study examined the decreasing grain yield of IR8, which was the first modern rice variety of the Green Revolution, and provides strong justification...