Tag Archives: sustainable agriculture

Innovative research and extension are the key to agricultural development

MR. KIM is the administrator of Korea’s Rural Development Administration The Rural Development Administration (RDA), which celebrated its 100th anniversary...

Do rice prices affect malnutrition in the poor?

(Photo: Ariel Javellana) At least 840 million people worldwide do not have enough food to meet their daily energy needs. In addition, more than three...

Korea-IRRI collaboration multiplies benefits

IRRI Senior Scientist Hung-Goo Hwang (center), Visiting Research Fellow Kyu-Seong Lee (right), and IRRI Director General Robert Zeigler inspect one of...

Are we at risk from metal contamination in rice?

The simple answer to the question posed by the title is “no”— because most rice is not dangerous. On closer inspection, though, we find that some rice-cropping systems are more likely than others to take up metals that are toxic to humans. Such metals may be a natural part of the local environment or present in industrial pollution. Who is most at risk from contaminated...

Tricks of the trade

Rice is an integral part of life, history, and culture in the Philippines. (Photo: Ariel Javellana, Gene Hettel, and Jose Raymond Panaligan)  The smattering...

False color gives a true impression

For this issue’s article on bird diversity and wetland conversion (see Balanced on a wing on pages 34–36), Rice Today needed a land cover map of Candaba...

A rice future for Asia

(Photo: Jose Raymond Panaligan) Rice and agriculture are still fundamental to the economic development of most Asian nations, not to mention their cultural...

The direct approach

Direct-Seeded rice (right) matures 3–4 weeks earlier than transplanted rice (left), and so is more likely to avoid damaging early-season drought and...

Genuinely Lao

LAO farmers tend vegetable terraces on the Nam Khan River near Luang Prabang. Improved rice production allows farmers to diversify their crops, and therefore...

Back to the future

The Mekong River, pictured here at Luang Prabang, Lao PDR, is central to the lives of hundreds of millions of people. (Photo: Peter Fredenburg) The...

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