February 25, 2015
rice varieties
February 10, 2015
July 1, 2014
Sri Premananda Swain, a farmer from Arapada Village, Balipatna Block, Khurda District in Odisha, did not mind...
July 1, 2014
Traditional rice varieties encompass a huge range of potentially valuable genes. These can be used to develop...
April 1, 2014
Rice is important to the people and the economy of Nepal, where agriculture employs around 80% of...
October 23, 2013
Earlier this year, farmers in the province of Laguna, in the Philippines, participated in a variety selection...
July 1, 2013
Increasing the yield potential of rice has always been the priority in working to increase food security....
January 1, 2013
Before scientists ever started crossing different rice plants, farmers had inadvertently been at it for centuries. By...
April 24, 2012
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In Arakan Valley, the upland “rice belt” of North Cotabato, Philippines, farmers hold dear a rice variety—Dinorado,...
January 9, 2012
Traditionally, rice threshing is done using oxen in many parts of Ethiopia. The oxen trample on rice...