Tag Archives: rice variety

(Photo: Temasek Life Science Laboratory©) It may come as a surprise that the highly urbanized city-state is the birthplace of a sturdy high-yielding...

Because of low rainfall and lack of irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an option for rainfed lowland rice farmers. But, thanks to...

For thousands of Bangladeshi farmers in flood-prone areas, growing rice is a risk they have to take each season. ...

Today’s challenges facing scientists are greater than they were 50 years ago. Fortunately, available scientific tools and on-farm technologies are far...

Climate change-ready rice varieties are a milestone in doubling the income of Indian farmers. ...

Conservation agriculture has a vital role to play in sub-Saharan Africa’s food security for a population projected to rise to 2 billion by 2050. ...

Developing the hybrid rice technology capacity of national partners, farmers, nongovernment organizations, and the private sector is a major component...

Leading by example, many farmers in the village are now following Nirmala Sapkota and her farming techniques as the changing climate continues to adversely...

Loop surveys were conducted in the wet and dry season every four to five years from 1966-67 to 2011-12—the longest farm surveys in existence—in which...

This year, 2016, IRRI is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of IR8, the first semidwarf rice variety that changed agriculture across Asia,...