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Precision agriculture for small-scale farmers

Farmers in the “texting capital” of the world—the Philippines—will soon have nutrient management advice tailored specifically to their rice crops...

Africa seeks “Marshall Plan” for capacity building

Africa’s dependence on rice imports is clearly no longer sustainable. In 2008, sub-Saharan Africa imported approximately 10 million tonnes of milled...

Back to basics

  (Photos: John R. Leeper) Rice is a major food crop in the world and it would be safe to assume that it will remain the world’s leading food...

Learning lessons from the HRDC

Hybrid rice technology developed at IRRI has clearly demonstrated yields that are 1–1.5 tons per hectare higher than modern inbred varieties in farmers’...

Adapting to change

For Glégnon Codjo, a smallholder ricefarmer in Benin, climate change is not a matter of debate. It is fast eroding his source of livelihood. “Our seasons...

Mechanical self-sufficiency

Rice production in Africa In sub-Saharan Africa, rice is a very important staple and cash crop. In 2006, the region produced more than 21.6 million metric...

Doubled haploids: from laboratory to field

Plant breeders are always in search of new breeding tools to produce high-yielding crop varieties with superior grain and nutritional quality, which are also resistant to diseases and insects, and tolerant of environmental stresses (drought, flooding, salinity, cold, etc.). Of the many tools available, anther culture-derived doubled haploids (haploid cells having two copies...

Every drop counts

Farmers must make sure that the bunds are well compacted to limit water loss. (Photo: Bas Bouman) Water makes up 70% of our planet. But in spite of...

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...

Rice science in the digital age

From its huge volume of research results on rice and rice-related subject matter, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has, for nearly 50...

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