April 1, 2015
food security
April 1, 2015
During their 15th annual meeting, held on 5 July at U.C. Davis, the trustees of the Asia...
April 1, 2015
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) are delighted to jointly...
April 1, 2015
At the time of establishing the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in 1960, Dr. Sterling Wortman of...
April 1, 2015
The high-diversity vegetation patches were designed for farmers as part of the “tool kit” of ecological engineering—a...
April 1, 2015
India has come a long way in the past 5 decades from a country with a severe...
April 1, 2015
About a third of the world’s rice is produced and consumed in South Asia. By 2035, about...
April 1, 2015
April is the cruelest month,” wrote T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land. It was as if he...
April 1, 2015
There is one occasion that Brazilian farmer Geovano Parcianello never misses. Every year, he travels 503 kilometers...
April 1, 2015
In India, rice has been grown since time immemorial. Here, the rice grain has always been considered...