Food Navigator Asia | 18 February 2016
Rice scientists have made a “breakthrough” in genetic crop development through a process of biofortification to increase iron and zinc levels in rice. Their discovery, the researchers say, will have a significant impact on the global fight against human micronutrient deficiency, or “hidden hunger”. Read more
Friday, February 26, 2016
DA’s heat-resistant palay variety rescues Maguindanao village farmers from El Niño
Philippine Information Agency | 17 February 2016
The Department of Agriculture’s climate change resistant rice variety rescued the farmers in Barangay Bugawas in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao from the impact of El Niño. Read more
The Department of Agriculture’s climate change resistant rice variety rescued the farmers in Barangay Bugawas in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao from the impact of El Niño. Read more
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Experts want Tanzanian farmers to upgrade rice
East African Business Week | 14 February 2016
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Tanzanian farmers have been encouraged to sell processed rice so as to increase their income by nearly 50%. According to study dubbed ‘Selling now or later, to process or not? The role of risk and time preferences in rice farmers decisions,’ selling rice or later are more profitable for farmers, than selling paddy or immediately after harvest. Read more
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Tanzanian farmers have been encouraged to sell processed rice so as to increase their income by nearly 50%. According to study dubbed ‘Selling now or later, to process or not? The role of risk and time preferences in rice farmers decisions,’ selling rice or later are more profitable for farmers, than selling paddy or immediately after harvest. Read more
IRRI scientists' breakthrough may usher 'green revolution'
GMA News | 15 February 2016
Rice-growing techniques learned through thousands of years of trial and error are about to be turbocharged with DNA technology in a breakthrough hailed by scientists as a potential second "green revolution". Read more
Rice-growing techniques learned through thousands of years of trial and error are about to be turbocharged with DNA technology in a breakthrough hailed by scientists as a potential second "green revolution". Read more
New rice research may usher in next wave of ‘green revolution’
Red Orbit | 16 February 2016
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines has a massive bank of rice varieties, which researchers paired sequenced using advanced Chinese technology. Now, more than 3,000 of the world’s most important kinds of rice have their entire genomes sequenced, along what their genes code for. Read more
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines has a massive bank of rice varieties, which researchers paired sequenced using advanced Chinese technology. Now, more than 3,000 of the world’s most important kinds of rice have their entire genomes sequenced, along what their genes code for. Read more
DNA breakthrough in rice 'a potential 2nd green revolution'
Straits Times | 16 February 2016
Rice-growing techniques learnt through thousands of years of trial and error are about to be turbocharged with DNA technology in a breakthrough hailed by scientists as a potential second "green revolution". Read more
Rice-growing techniques learnt through thousands of years of trial and error are about to be turbocharged with DNA technology in a breakthrough hailed by scientists as a potential second "green revolution". Read more
Enter the techie farmer and precision farming
Philippine Daily Inquirer | 18 February 2016
Dubbed “Rice Crop Manager” or RCM, the decision-support tool was developed by the International Rice Research Institute with funding from the Department of Agriculture through its food staples sufficiency program. Read more
Dubbed “Rice Crop Manager” or RCM, the decision-support tool was developed by the International Rice Research Institute with funding from the Department of Agriculture through its food staples sufficiency program. Read more
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