Ipoh Kway Teow Ipoh Kway Teow April 2, 2011 Patti Heong, spouse of Dr. K.L. Heong, a senior scientist at IRRI responsible for research on arthropod ecology...Read More
Remembering four giants in agriculture and development Remembering four giants in agriculture and development April 2, 2011 Thomas Hargrove, Robert Huggan, Dao The Tuan, and Michael Way—four giants in the world of agriculture and...Read More
A sleepy rice market: the calm before the storm? A sleepy rice market: the calm before the storm? April 2, 2011 Global food prices are on the rise again. In January, the food price index exceeded the level...Read More
Even grounds Even grounds April 2, 2011 Few countries in Asia are familiar with precision land leveling or laser land leveling, but, in India,...Read More
Ready for climate change Ready for climate change April 2, 2011 A growing number of subsistence farmers as well as seed growers are now planting “climate-change-ready” rice in...Read More
Kiping the faith Kiping the faith April 1, 2011 In the Philippines, a country with 1,001 fiestas, town celebrations tend to become indistinguishable from one another....Read More
Farmers get their groove back Farmers get their groove back April 1, 2011 Consumers in Tamil Nadu, a predominantly rice-growing state in India, who preferred millet grains, particularly finger millet,...Read More
Making dreams come true Making dreams come true April 1, 2011 “My story of going into agriculture is like an irony of ironies,” Shaobing Peng recalls. “In 1979,...Read More
IRRI in Indonesia IRRI in Indonesia April 1, 2011 From being a heavy rice importer in the 1970s, Indonesia today is the third-largest rice producer in...Read More
The pillars of Africa’s agriculture The pillars of Africa’s agriculture April 1, 2011 “When you educate a girl, you educate a nation.” Nowhere is this saying more true than in...Read More