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Hydroponics rice paddy nursery: An innovative twist on growing rice in India

Promoting the wider use of hydroponics paddy nursery can help Indian rice farmers save significant amounts of water, land, labor, time, and other resources....

Vitamin E: From preserving beauty to conserving biodiversity

A new study shows vitamin E’s famous antioxidant property is more than skin deep and could also be useful in preserving the genetic diversity stored...

Nepal follows the path to climate-change-ready rice farming

The adoption of stress-tolerant rice varieties in 22 districts in Nepal is leading the way to sustainable rice production and food security in the country....

Rice seed production: What happens in the field?

There is a pressing need to look for sustainable ways to accelerate the production, dissemination, and adoption of new rice varieties to meet future demand...

Senegal’s quiet rice revolution

Seed growers turn Anambé into a valley of prosperity ...

Uganda’s rice revolution

Compared with other West African countries such as Mali and Senegal, which have been growing rice for centuries, Uganda is just “a new kid on the...

Working together to save grains

A low-cost, farm-level dryer is tested at a farmer’s house in Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR. (Photo: IRRI) Even though rice prices have come down...

Ups and downs: private-sector investment in rice research

Rice is, arguably, the world’s most important food crop. In spite of this prominence, the private sector for many years concentrated only on developing rice crop protection products such as herbicides and insecticides. There was little investment in improving rice varieties, and low participation in the crop seed business. In the mid-1990s, however, several agricultural...

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