Tag Archives: rice variety

With no advanced education, Khushi Ram Mishra and Lok Nath Devkota have become successful seed producer farmers in Nepal. Their success stories are still...

BASMATI RICE farmers in Pakistan are finding better livelihoods with access to the European market. Photo: RPL. A program for improving Pakistan’s basmati...

A while back, I read an interesting story extolling the merits of the new flood-tolerant rice, Swarna-Sub1, in the newsletter of the Stress-Tolerant Rice...

(Photo: ©EIGHTH WONDER, INC.) There once lived two young brothers, Wigan and Kabigat, who lived with their father, Pudol, in Kayng, a prosperous village...

A long time ago, I was told, “Rice is to Asians what wine is to Europeans.” Wine is linked to Europe’s culture and cuisines as closely as rice is...

In the Philippines, the second phase of the Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP2) works to reduce poverty and improve...

Brown planthoppers pierce the plant stem and suck out the sap. (Photo: IRRI) In 2002, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) had four major problems in...

(Photo: Hal Harvey) Merle Shepard has been working for 13 years on an unusual “hobby,” as he describes the process. It has been a long time...

(Photo: IRRI) New rice varieties have revolutionized rice production around the world. Despite devastating stresses attributed to climate change, farmers...

Most rice farmers in Kayapa, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines, grapple with the cold every year. During the summer, maximum temperature peaks at 25.3 °C in...