Friday, May 27, 2016

Food security episode (IRRI and the genebank)

Green Living, ANC

IRRI was featured in the show, Green Living. View video

Farmers told: Brace for more pests, diseases during wet season

Sun Star

Leaf blight, according to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), is a disease most likely to develop in areas that have weeds and stubbles of infected plants. Read more

IRRI warns of another rice shortage

Philippine Daily Inquirer

The combined stock of milled rice held by the world’s top five exporters has gone down to the bare minimum and the monsoon season setting in could push the world market toward another supply shortage like in 2007 and 2008. Read more

5 Iloilo towns selected for rice initiative program

Sun Star

FIVE rice producing municipalities in the province of Iloilo were selected as project sites of the Better Rice Initiatives Asia-Fostering Agriculture and Rice Marketing by improved Education and Rural advisory Services (BRIA-Farmers) funded by the German government’s Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Read more

Iloilo towns to pilot rice initiatives

Manila Times

Five rice-producing municipalities in the province of Iloilo were selected as project sites of the Better Rice Initiatives Asia – Fostering Agriculture and Rice Marketing by improved Education and Rural advisory Services (BRIA FARMERS). Read more

TESDA, IRRI ink deal on Agri-mechanization Technology

TESDA

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have forged a partnership to work together for the development and delivery of Agri-mechanization Technology training courses in the country. Read more

Friday, May 13, 2016

Legarda Urges Gov't to Utilize IRRI Programs to Improve Agriculture in PHL

Senate of the Philippines | 13 May 2016

Senator Loren Legarda today said that the government must utilize the research programs of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) to improve agricultural systems in the country and to adapt to the changing climate. Read more

Field test on for 3 more GM crops

The Daily Star | 12 May 2016

Along with two other rice varieties (IR-64, a variety developed by the International Rice Research Institute, and RC-28, a Filipino variety), BRRI Dhan-29, one of Bangladesh's most productive rice varieties, has been genetically engineered to have greater expressions of a corn gene responsible for producing beta carotene (also known as pro-vitamin A). Read more

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Spring paddy acreage to be expanded by 200k hectares

Kathmandu Post | 12 May 2016

The International Rice Research Institute has expanded the distribution of the improved paddy seeds to 21 districts that are considered to be food insecure. Read more

Friday, May 6, 2016

Food security now: New norm or false dawn? – Analysis

Eurasia Review | 6 May 2016

The International Rice Research institute (IRRI) in an early 2016 report showed that while global rice commodity prices have declined in consecutive years since 2013, the huge stocks of yesteryears have also declined sharply, especially in the top exporting countries of Thailand, Vietnam and India. Read more

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

El Niño-caused rice shortage could happen this year, lead to higher prices

SF Gate | 4 May 2016

Add on yet another global effect of El Niño: A global rice shortage could become a reality this year, due to the weather system. Read more