Friday, February 26, 2016

ACI, IRRI tie up to release hybrid rice varieties

The Financial Express | 22 February 2016

The Advanced Chemical Industries Ltd (ACI), a leading agro processing, seed and crop solution company in the country, has recently made a bilateral tie with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for varietal development of rice. Read more

Scientists develop ‘breakthrough’ GM rice with increased iron and zinc

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

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

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

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

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

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