Rice is the major staple food crop in Bangladesh. The harvested area covers 11.5 million hectares (because...
rice science
Back in 2006, a farmer in the town of Victoria in the Philippine province of Laguna asked...
Traditionally, rice threshing is done using oxen in many parts of Ethiopia. The oxen trample on rice...
Japan has long defended and quite successfully managed to maintain sovereignty in its international agricultural trade policies...
Laxima Adhikari, a farmer in Nepal, used to suffer from an unstable supply of seeds, especially when...
Rice consumers worldwide can now look forward to eating “green” rice with the launch of an initiative...
For several years now, I have been monitoring, with some alarm, the world population clock on the...
In Asia, where about 90% of rice is grown, hundreds of millions of rural poor grow rice...
Maize ears from CIMMYT’s collection, showing a wide variety of colors and shapes. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank contains...
The world population is expected to increase almost as sure as the sun rises in the east....
