AWD is easy to learn and makes use of inexpensive tools to gauge water level to know whether it is time to flood or drain the field. Water supply to about 27,000 rice farmers in Central Luzon in the Philippines was cut off due in part to decreasing water levels
IRRI’s new breeding factory A bigger rice bowl Rice in Mexico, the land of maize Adding value to Africa’s rice Women who moved mountains for heirloom rice Specifications Publisher:International Rice Research Institute Language:English ISSN:1655-5422 Pages:43 pages PDF:Download PDF
Key facts Between 2012-2014, the Emergency and Resilience Programme (ERP) has invested more than US$5 million in support of 18,500 vulnerable farming households in Lesotho. ERP provides input support and capacity development on Conservation Agriculture, home gardening and nutrition targeting communities, lead farmers and extension services. The ERP is jointly
The open-access, open-data journal GigaScience (published by BGI and Biomed Central), announces today (28 May) the publication of an article on the genome sequencing of 3000 rice strains along with the release of this entire dataset in a citable format in journal’s affiliated open-access database, GigaDB. The publication and release of this enormous data set (which
No-till farming, a key conservation agriculture strategy that avoids conventional plowing and otherwise disturbing the soil, may not bring a hoped-for boost in crop yields in much of the world, according to an extensive new meta-analysis by an international team led by the University of California, Davis. As the core
This image shows a greenhouse study showing drought-stressed soybean with different levels of resistance to charcoal rot. Over 100 diseases that can attack soybean crops, why would charcoal rot rise to the top of the most wanted list? University of Illinois scientists cite the earth’s changing climate as one reason
Giving tomato breeders and ketchup fans something to cheer about, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientist and his colleagues at the Hebrew University in Israel have identified a gene that pushes hybrid tomato plants to spectacularly increase yield. The yield-boosting power of this gene, which controls when plants make
Improved rice from IRRI’s breeding work has given farmers in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia an additional US$1.46 billion worth of rice every year from 1985-2009, an independent study by the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) finds. In the years that followed the release of IR8 , or “miracle rice”, improving rice is not